291642 - double-click or "open" on message display isn't opening standalone read window

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[L A Walsh]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: version 1.0 (20041206)

Something changed somewhere along the line...not sure exactly when -- but
a double click on a message or right-click(menu), and open message both 
show the "program launch cursor" (point w/hourglass), but no separate window
opens.  I have it set under Tools->Options->General: Open mesage in new window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. display a message (in "classic mode")
2. I double click on message (or "rightclick, open)
3.

Actual Results:  
cursor change as though launching another window but no window pops up.
Message still displayed in lower pane.


Expected Results:  
Opened standalone window.

This *Used* to work before I installed the last T-bird release.  Think I 
was at "1.0PR" before this one.

Couldn't find dup -- suspect it is something particular to some people's
setups...(like mine - :-/ )

Comment 1

[Ralph Cook]

I have this same behavior, thunderbird 1.0.2 on Win2000.  I have rebooted the
machine and restarted Tbird a couple of times.  control-O does not work either.
 Occasionally, when I try this, TBird starts using 100% of the CPU without
visible effect.  I've had to kill the program using Windows Task Manager.

Help!  Anyone have any idea what's going on here?

rc

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[L A Walsh]

still a problem; forget I'd submitted the bug and was thinking
about submitting it....maybe I would have found my
initial submission...I do look, ya know! :-)
-l

Comment 4

[forum]

Still a problem in T-Bird 1.0.7!!!

But in version 1.0.6 it worked (in my environment Win2k SP4)

Comment 5

[David Wright]

From David Wright,
Using TB 1.0.7, occasionally double click (or Right-click Open) on an Inbox item brings up an empty "Mail & Newsgroups" box. By repeatedly double-clicking (or Right-click Open) on items in Inbox (up to 10 times) eventually it works correctly and opens up the email message. This is a minor annoyance. It doesn't happen every time and often occurs mid way through reading a series of emails, after using Mailwasher free to delete spam emails before starting TB.

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Is this bug still being seen in 1.5 builds?  I can't say I've ever seen the problem.

Comment 7

[L A Walsh]

Started working in 1.5