267815 - [MAC] typing certain characters in quicksearch box activates menu accelerators

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 199019

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Rob Pettengill]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 0.9 (20041103)

Some character keys will not insert into the search box, but rather highlight
menu bar menus.  e.g. "m" highlights "Message" and "g" highlights "View" (that's
right "g" NOT "v".  I seem to recall seeing this behavior in version 0.7 (not
sure if it was all the time then).  The problem was not present in 0.8.  The
problem occurs on a Powerbook running OS X 10.3.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. select an inbox folder
2. click in the quick serarch box
result: cursor blinks in the search box
3. type the "m" key
result:  the "Message" menu title on the menu bar hightlights momentarily, no
"m" is   inserted in the search box
expected result: an "m" should be inserted into the search box

Actual Results:  
the "Message" menu title on the menu bar hightlights momentarily, no "m" is  
inserted in the search box

Expected Results:  
an "m" should be inserted into the search box
 with no attempt at menu selection

Comment 1

[denis.laplante]

(In reply to comment #0)
I see same bug, but unlike Rob am unable to reproduce it using his recipe or
other sequences of actions; it hits me at random times.
Same platform/versions: MacOsX 10.3, Thunderbird 0.9 and previous.
I use thunderbird daily and only see this about monthly.
Also tried version 1.0 (20041206), and failed to reproduce bug, but that doesn't
prove it's been fixed.

Workaround: use SHIFT key to enter misbehaving letters like FBNPG (search is
case-insensitive).
Closing the mail window and reopening it cleared the problem.

-- Denis --

Comment 2

[Elmar Ludwig]

*** Bug 274004 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Elmar Ludwig]

*** Bug 287000 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Elmar Ludwig]

Confirming, saw this today on Thunderbird 1.0 on MacOS X 10.3. The problem
vanished after restarting the program. There are some more instructions to
reproduce the effect in bug 274004 (which may or may not trigger the effect).

Setting severity to minor (easy workaround, see comment 1).

Comment 5

[Elmar Ludwig]

updating summary to better reflect the behaviour

Comment 6

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

I see this on mac branch. It may very well appear on trunk as well, but since
it's a very intermittant problem, it is rather hard to reproduce. I've seen it
in other text input fields as well, such as the textbox to name a new virtual
folder. This is a pretty serious bug and makes several features unusable when it
occurs. 

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 199019 ***