278673 - loading photos through "my pictures" on windows blows out the weatherbug

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[David L. Cohen]

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/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

it's convenient for a lot of us to load pictures into e-mail from windows xp's
"my pictures," using the command link there "e-mail this file," in part because
that option offers you a choice of sending a reduced-size image, which is more
easily e-mailed.  however, when thunderbird is the default client, and you
attach your selected photo from "my pictures," the entire operating system is
shaken up considerably.  desktop icons momentarily disappear, you get a "report
error" message, but the more serious problem is that the hugely popular
downloaded "weatherbug" icon in the system tray (the program that puts the
temperature of your locale next to the time) is permanently blown away and must
be reloaded.  there is a simple solution for this: keep outlook express as the
default mail client -- the one used for sending pics stored in "my pictures." 
however, i'd prefer to have thunderbird as my default.  anyway to keep my
favored mail client (thunderbird) as my default while safely, smoothly loading
photos into it using the command links in "my pictures?"  or, at a minimum, any
way to downsize images easily (one button loading or a some pre-set config) for
thunderbird that doesn't play havoc with the rest of windows?

thanks for you help.

ps.  thunderbird after it's been launched and minimized also seems a tad slow to
maximize again, and the composition page can also be slow to launch.  any easy
ideas?

thanks again. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  go to "my pictures" in windows xp with thunderbird set as the default
2.  select a picture and, on the left, click "e-mail this file"
3.  stand back and see your screen go to the desktop, your icons dissolve to
invisible, a "report error" message appear, and the loss, if you have it, of the
downloaded weatherbug icon from your tray

Actual Results:  
picture eventually loads in to a composition window in thunderbird, as it
should.   but before that, all icons momentarily disappear, an error report
appears that must be "x'ed" away.  but then the weatherbug icon permanently is
removed in the shakeup and must be re-loaded, which is unacceptable.

Expected Results:  
software ideally should load photo as an attachment into a composition page of
thunderbird that it raises -- ready to e-mail.  end of story.  all other
functions on the computer, like weatherbugs, should remain totally unaffected. 
to see exactly how it's supposed to work, try using "my pictures" command
"e-mail to" to load a photo using outlook express as the default mail client.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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