288867 - cursor keys don't work in new mail window after I used send to mail recipient menu in windows (file) explorer

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Tánczos András]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; hu-HU; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; hu-HU; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

Cursor keys don't work in new mail window after I used send to mail recipient
menu in windows (file) explorer to create a new mail with attachment. This
happens if the Thunderbird is not started. Besides the program slows down the
computer (only in this case).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
0. close thunderbird
1. start windows explorer
2. select a file
3. right click to open context menu
4. select send to -> mail recepient

Actual Results:  
1. the cursor keys don't work in new mail window
2. the computer slows down

Expected Results:  
the cursor keys should work

Comment 1

[Michael Taeuber]

I can see this behaviour also with Version 1.0.5 (20050709), but it happens not
always. Most of the times I can force the error by typing part of the recipients
name and then selecting one name with the cursor. When clicking then into the
subject field and try to move the cursor in the standard subject text, it
doesn't work. Very seldom I cannot move the cursor in the message body.
If Thunderbird is already open, this error doesn't occur.

Comment 2

[Michael Taeuber]

One additional info: if I enable JavaScript at thunderbird, the error doesn't occur.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I can reproduce this with TB 1.0, but it appears to be fixed in TB 1.5 -- possibly by the patch at bug 303976.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 312152 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***