289774 - restart address book to update record

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Dinçer Kavraal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; tr-TR; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; tr-TR; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2

A new mail window is open, and open any other window for address book: try to
update a record in address-book. The new mail window (at least the address book
embedded) has to be restarted to catch update.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a new mail window
2.Embed the address book
3.Also open the address book as a seperate window
4.Update a record
5.Insert the updated record from embedded address book of new mail window
Actual Results:  
Record I updated just was inserted without last update.

Expected Results:  
I had to see updated state of record

Comment 1

[Carlos Coquet]

I THINK this bug report may be trying to say that when one changes an eMail
address in the Address Book, clicking on Write opens the compose window with the
UNupdated address.  One must exit Thunderbird and restart it to pick up the change.
I am going to report that as a separate error, just in case.

Carlos Coquet 09-02-2005

Comment 2

[Carlos Coquet]

On second thought, that IS what he / she is trying to say.  Basically, inserting
addresses in the Compose window, at least if using an address tree opened left
of the message, one picks up the "old" eMail address for the recipient.  I am
not going to file a separate report.  I think my additional information on this
should be enough.

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This WFM on Thunderbird Linux version 3.0a1pre (2008030903). Also confirmed via irc on bugday.

Comment 4

[Dinçer Kavraal]

I am sorry to be unavailable to test the alpha release. In the report I tried to mean closing and then reopening a new compose window by "restarting". Restart is not needed for Thunderbird from start at all. Just, the fact is, an open compose window is not aware of a background address update at the time of composing (while open).

Comment 5

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Just, the fact is, an
> open compose window is not aware of a background address update at the time of
> composing (while open).

Yes, and this is what is now working for us, I expect it will also work correctly on TB 2.0.