280991 - 'click here to download message' weird behaviour

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Robert Harvey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0 20041206

JUst noticed this rather odd thing with mail download headers-only.

When the mail is selected the preview menu shows a small box with the
instruction 'Only the headers for this message were downloaded from the mail server.
Click here to download the rest of the message.'
"Here" is highlit as a hyperlink.

Clicking this appears to do nothing.  Only when the mouse is moved after
clicking does the download begin.  Ordinary hyperlinks in real messages work as
expected, it only seems to be this system message 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Set 'download headers only, with preview window
2.  get some mail.
3.  select new mail
4.  click on word 'here'

Actual Results:  
Nothing, until you move the mouse.  Then the status line shows connection activity

Expected Results:  
connectivity would start as soon with button down

This is fairly trivial, except for people with limited mobility, using
"accessability" devices like slow mouse , arrow key cursor, or similar.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Clicking this appears to do nothing.  Only when the mouse is moved after
> clicking does the download begin.

I'm unable to reproduce this symptom.

> Expected Results:  
> connectivity would start as soon with button down

This isn't exactly correct -- the link should start being processed on 
button-up.  If I just hold the mouse button down, neither the "download rest of 
message" link nor any other link starts to process, as expected.

But the link to get the rest of the message appears to work as expected.  There 
may be a slight delay for that link, compared to (say) clicking a mailto: link 
in a message.


> This is fairly trivial, except for people with limited mobility, using
> "accessability" devices like slow mouse , arrow key cursor, or similar.

Do you see a similar problem when using the keyboard to tab to the link and then 
hitting Return?

Comment 2

[Albert Feller]

unable to reproduce, tried 1.0.2 and 2005-03-21-05-trunk on WinXP
as always, please try to reproduce the bug with a new profile/new installation

Comment 3

[Robert Harvey]

Hmm. 10.2 already.  I will download and try.....
Yes, OK, I'll close this off.

Comment 4

[Albert Feller]

not trying to be nitpicking but IMHO this should be
-->WFM
FIXED is only for "A fix for this bug has been checked into the tree and tested
by the person marking it FIXED."

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Reopened to fix resolution.