255397 - group list *silently* not fetched while offline

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Tobias Weber]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; de-de) AppleWebKit/125.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.8
Build Identifier: 0.7.3 (20040803)

Upon first opening the news group subscription dialog or pressing its refresh button the list of 
available groups is fetched from the server.
This does not happen when in "working offline" mode.
The bad thing is that users only see "Please wait" and a progress gauge instead of being told to change 
modes first.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. check File/Offline/Work Offline
2. Manage newsgroup subscriptions
3. press refresh button

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Tobias Weber]

I can reproduce this with Thunderbird version 1.5 Beta 1 (20050908) and Mozilla
1.7.12.
This is an interface issue and should be easy to fix. It can cause frustration
for unexperienced users.

Comment 3

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Reporter, does the problem still occur in the latest Thunderbird version, as of now 2.0.0.9?

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

(Thunderbird 1.5.0.x has reached end-of-life, as are prior versions 1.0.x and 0.x.)

-- adding myself to cc list

Comment 4

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Almost two weeks with no new information / comments, with Thunderbird 1.5.0.x having been end-of-life, bug has been resolved incomplete. Please reopen if anyone strongly feels otherwise, providing more information at the same time.

At the time of writing, the latest supported Thunderbird version is 2.0.0.12 and can be downloaded at http://www.getthunderbird.com/