275189 - Caret (cursor) starts in Body instead of Subject for newsgroup or mailto: (HTML only)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 207527

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

TB 1.0, Win2K (newsgroup comments support this for Win2K and Linux):

When composing a new message to a newsgroup, or with a mailto: that fills in the 
To: line but not the subject; and for an account that defaults to an HTML 
compose window:  The caret is placed in the Body rather than the Subject line.

Steps to reproduce:
1) Configure a news account to compose in HTML
2) Select a group in the account
3) Select 'Write'
 - or -
1) Configure the default mailto account to compose in HTML
2) Find a mailto: link that specifies a recipient but no subject or body
3) Click it!

Expected results:
Mail compose window opens with To: or Newsgroup: address field filled in, empty 
body, and caret in the empty Subject field.

Actual results:
Caret is in the body.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

still true for trunk

Comment 2

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

Mike, Wayne, does this still occur in the latest 2.0.0.x or trunk nightlies?

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Yes; I just tried with 3.0a1pre (2008041004) for both newsgroups and mailto:.
(It's not that hard to test!)

Comment 4

[Onno Ekker [:nONoNonO UTC+1]]

This was hard to test! Turns out I have Mail Tweak extension installed which has an option to focus empty subject as a fix for bug 207527. Dupe?

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I think you're right.