286607 - The screen goes blank when there's new mail

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 286451

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Jean-Marc]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050304 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050304 Firefox/1.0+

Whenever there's new mail when I click on the "Get new messages" toolbar icon,
the screen goes blank ! Nothing in sight, except the mouse pointer ! This is a
display-only bug. However I can see something with [ALT]+[TAB] and [CTRL]+[ESC]
(switching window and menu window respectively, as usual, but on a blank
screen). I can close blindly all the apps with [ALT]+F4 , then log off. This is
the only way to get out of this "blind state". Note : the screen is actually
grey, not black or white.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start TB
2. Click on the "Get new messages" toolbar icon
3. Have the chance to get a new message

Actual Results:  
The screen goes blank (grey actually). Windows is blind.

Expected Results:  
Not have blanked the screen and having notified the new message in the system tray.

It regressed between the 2005-03-01 and 2005-03-16 trunk builds.

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 286451 ***