270100 - Can not select multiple addresses in the compose window

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 136897

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Don VanSyckel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

After adding a number of addresses in the compose window the addresses can only
be selected one at a time to delete them.  And the delete key has to be pressed
twice at that.  You should be able to select multiple addresses either with
shift or with control.  Then press delete once and they should all go away. 
Multiple select should also work with changing the address type, To, CC, BCC, etc.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open new email
2. Add addresses
3.

Actual Results:  
Could not select multiple addresses to do a delete or change address type.

Expected Results:  
Allow the selection of multiple addresses and then perform the desired operation
on them.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Workaround: You can multi-select if you use the Address button to open the
Select Addresses window.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

xref bug 252665 -- I think this is a dupe of that (which is properly entered as 
an enhancement) but the summary of that bug is not very informative.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 136897 ***

Comment 4

[Don Erway]

This is NOT a duplicate of 25665.

This is about the message compose window itself, and the fact that it will not allow any way, in the address list pane, to select multiple lines for any reason.

For example, to change them all to BCC, after being hit by bug 271917.  Or to delete them, for the same reason.

The scheme in 252665 may be a work around, if it existed, but it is not an answer to this bug.

The address list in the compose window should allow multi line selection, with ctrl click, or shift click.

Comment 5

[Don Erway]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Workaround: You can multi-select if you use the Address button to open the
> Select Addresses window.

There is address button in thunderbird.