271488 - Various means of searching address disregards the ".position" parameter in user.js

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, defect)

Description

[Jeremy Hurst]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; INTRANETUSER)
Build Identifier: 

When you access the address book, beit via 'Search Addresses' or 'Address Book' 
or otherwise, not every screen defaults to the topmost address book (which is 
controlled by the .position parameter in your user.js/prefs.js file.

Although the list of address books appears correct, some windows will default 
to searching the Personal Address Book. The address book should conform to 
the .position of the address book and search the first one listed.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set an address book (perhaps an LDAP one) as your first address book 
(set .position = 1 in your user.js/prefs.js file)
2. From the main mail window, click Window > Address Book
3. Notice your number 1 address book is listed as default.
4. Now go back to the main mail window, and from the Tools menu choose 'Search 
Addresses'. This defaults to Personal Address Book.
Actual Results:  
In some windows, the Personal Address Book is the default and you cannot change 
this.

Expected Results:  
Which ever address book in your config file you have listed as #1 should appear 
first.

Comment 1

[Jeremy Hurst]

A couple of additional notes:

1) I am using Mozilla 1.7.3
2) This is not a duplicate of bug 239109

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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