301388 - message list loses focus when holding delete key down to remove messages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 268098

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Joshua Levine]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.9) Gecko/20050711 Firefox/1.0.5

When emptying the trash can in my news feeds, I typically hold down the delete
key so I can scroll through articles in case I missed some of them (I tend to
delete a majority of the news items unless something catches my eye). However,
manually emptying the trash can provides a second chance to skim through the
unneeded articles. However, when holding the delete key down with a RSS FOLDER
SELECTED (Not the trash folder), after about 3-4 deletions, the currently
selected item loses focus requiring you click on one of the listings. This only
occurs in RSS feed folders, and not in the trash can folder itself. Attached is
a video file which demonstrates said bug.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Refresh a feed that contains more than 3 items
2. highlight one feed and hold down the delete key
3. after focus is lost on the current selected item, click another entry and repeat
4. Move to trash folder
5. highlight one item and hold down delete
6. All items are removed without losing focus

Actual Results:  
Focus is lost after about 3-4 items being deleted while holding the delete key down

Expected Results:  
Focus on the current folders contents should not be lost when holding the delete key

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 268098 ***