290065 - Can't reopen Thunderbird main UI if a message was left open in a window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 270757

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Laszlo Sebo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

If i open an email in a separate window (or in the process of composing one),
and close the Thunderbird mail browser, the only way to open it up again is to
close all the open mail windows that belonged to the previous thunderbird
process. Basically, killing it all together.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open thunderbird
2. right-click on an email, and hit Open message in new window
3. Close thunderbird main mail browser, but leave the previously opened mail's
window up
4. Try to start the thunderbird mail browser again

Actual Results:  
Mail browser does not open

Expected Results:  
Mail browser should recognize that it's not amongst the already running
thunderbird processes, and should open.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #0)
> If i open an email in a separate window (or in the process of composing one),
> and close the Thunderbird mail browser, the only way to open it up again is to
> close all the open mail windows that belonged to the previous thunderbird
> process. Basically, killing it all together.

No, that is not the only way.  The Tools menu of all the subsidiary windows has 
"Mail & Newsgroups" which will reopen the main window, and a Ctrl+1 shortcut.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 270757 ***

Comment 2

[Laszlo Sebo]

Thanks for looking into it and providing a workaround!

Sorry for the duplicate report.