257625 - Thunderbird sometimes puts itself in front after opening an attachment

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 277406

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Gert-Jan Vons]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040830 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: version 0.7+ (20040831)

When I receive mails with an attached word document, opening the attachment
starts word as the topmost app, but then thunderbird comes back in front.

Since my goal is to view the attachment, this is not the expected behavior.

This happens when I have TB ask me how to open the attachment (the dialog "you
have chosen to open <file>, What should Thunderbird do with this file? Open with
<app>, save to disk, Do this automatically for files like this from now on")

If I tell TB to "do this automatically for files like this from now on", TB no
longer becomes the topmost application after launching word, Word stays in front
as expected.

As soon as I remove the automatic opening with word, the problem comes back.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. doubleclick or rightclick->open a .doc attachment
2 [review]. TB shows the "Opening <file>" dialog
3. select "open with Word"
4. Word opens as the topmost app and loads the file
5. Suddenly TB becomes the topmost app again  <-- wrong!




Windows XP Pro SP1 or SP2
Thunderbird milestone builds and nightly builds
Word 2002 (currently SP3)

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 259772 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

It's a really annoying bug. IMO this has to be a regression because I'm sure
that I didn't noticed it in former times (perhaps seeing this since 0.8). 

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Regression appears somewhere between the TB 0.7.3 and TB 0.8 release. Currently
I didn't have any nightly build within this period.

Comment 4

[Dan]

For me it's not "sometimes" but rather "always".  This detracts from the
polished feel of the app.

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

bug 277406 has a patch in it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 277406 ***

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

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