241226 - News thread pane shows first item's subject as highlighted

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040420
Pinball theme

Every time I enter a newsgroup, I'm seeing the first item in the thread pane 
shown with the subject (only) shown as highlighted (reverse video/white text on 
black).

I see this: with threaded or unthreaded views; whether or not there is a 
selection in the thread pane.  If I select the item, it displays entirely as 
highlighted (as expected); and then when I deselect it, it reverts to the same 
odd display.

Comment 1

[Stefan Borggraefe]

WFM with Modern and Classic with a Linux Gtk2 build from today.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This problem stubbornly persisted thru a couple of sessions after I first 
encountered it, but has stopped occurring -- same build, no deliberate changes 
to CSS files or anything else.

I'll leave this open for now, but if it doesn't recur over the next couple 
weeks, I'll WFM it.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Attachment: Screen capture #1 of symptom

This just started happening again.  I'd been reading the n.p.m groups with no
problem; when I entered n.p.m.wishlist, suddenly I noticed that subject of the
*second* item (not the first) was highlighted.	Now it's on no matter which
group I visit.	Here's a screen capture with the threads collapsed...

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Attachment: Screen capture #2 of symptom

Here's another capture after expanding the first thread, so you can see that
the highlighting is position-dependent rather than subject-text dependent.

Both captures taken with the 0422 build (I know, I'm out-of-date here...)

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I haven't seen this problem for quite a while, so WFM.

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I saw this symptom in Thunderbird 2.0.0.16, in two different RSS folders under the same RSS account.  I didn't look at every other folder in my tree, but none of the IMAP or POP inboxes showed it, nor did the few newsgroups and local folders that I checked.  Windows XP/64.  The program has since been restarted and no longer shows the symptom.