269528 - Runaway Directory

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Joseph Conner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/Thunderbird/v0.9/20041103

At times the listing of messages refuses to scroll by demand.  Dragging the
righ-hand scroll button down will break from the cursor hold and scroll back to
the top of the window by itself.  Repeated button drags begin to follow the
cursor drag, but break free and return to the window top.  Pressing the up/down
buttons have no effect to bring the behavior under control.  I have windows XP
Pro with Mozilla Thunderbird version 0.9 (20041103).  I am using a Microsoft
optical wheel mouse.  The center wheel has not been used to lock down a reference.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Thunderbird, select a folder with many messages.
2.Click on a message in the folder, getting a message to display in the lower
window.
3. Drag the right-hand scroll button down.  Sometimes it will break free of the
drag and scroll back to the top.

Actual Results:  
I tried the up-down arrows on the keyboard, scrolling the mouse wheel, and
clicking on the up / down buttons at top right and bottom right.

Expected Results:  
Permit a controlled scroll of the message headers.  A workaround is to close
Thunderbird and restart it.

Comment 1

[dnickell]

I'd like to confirm this action.  It used to happen to me often in NS 4.78. In
TB 1.0, under Win98SE, it's only happened twice since I installted TB 1.0 in
mid-December.

I don't understand the action of all the buttons below this _Additional
Comments_ window so will leave them ALL alone.  ;-)

Comment 2

[Joseph Conner]

It just happened again for me.  I discovered that changing the view from ALL to
UNREAD then back to ALL broke out of the runaway status and restored normal
functionality.

Comment 3

[Joseph Conner]

It just occured to me again, this time I am using Thunderbird version 1.0.5
(20050711).

The scroll insists this time to scroll to the *bottom* of the list.

Comment 4

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

Reporter, does the issue still occur with the latest supported 2.0.0.x / Shredder trunk nightlies?

(1.5.0.x is now end-of-life and the latest supported Thunderbird version 2 is 2.0.0.16)

Comment 5

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESO INCO per lack of response to the last question. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.

Comment 6

[Joseph Conner]

Using 2.0.0.16 I have had no further reoccurrence of this bug.

Comment 7

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

-> WFM as per comment #6.