288319 - cutting and pasting from any application to Thunderbird and then attempting to manipulate text after, causes all new composition windows to be blank

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Amy C]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: version 1.0.2 (20050317)

situation: 
1) click on "Write" button
2) Paste in Text from windows clipboard (can either select with or without 
formatting)
3) attempt to insert text above paste by typing

Composition window blanks out. And continues to not show text in any new 
composition windows. Closing Thunderbird and Restarting program restores it.

I can duplicate this over and over :)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.click on "Write" button
2.Paste in Text from windows clipboard (can either select with or without 
formatting)
3.attempt to insert text above paste by typing

Actual Results:  
Should allow me to type into window anywhere but instead, blanks out.


please feel free to contact me if this is not clear.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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