296044 - When reply to an email defaults to type at the bottom of the message rather than the top

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[lisa]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: 

When you reply to an email the new message window defaults to allow you to type 
at the bottom of the message rather than the top. It is a really little thing, 
but is exceptionally annoying to always have to scroll to the top of ALL reply 
emails to type your own message at the top.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Hit reply to any email
2.Cursor will sit at the bottom of the email message rather than at the top
3.

Actual Results:  
Cursor will sit at the bottom of the email message rather than at the top
Have to scroll to the top to type message.

Expected Results:  
Default to the top of the message so I can instantly type away in reply to the 
message.

Many congratulations on the product. I changed seamlessly today from netscape 
7.1 to thunderbird. I have NEVER experienced such an easy and effortless 
transfer. COngratulations. I hope you can fix this default because it is 
extremely annoying.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

I think this is already configurable, see
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Reply_Position for more information.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

It is configurable, on a per-identity basis.  The default is not going to be 
changed, this has been thrashed out repeatedly; it took a major uproar just to 
provide the option in the first place.