303804 - "Send" email window, Thunderbird will not open while an instance of message compose is already running.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 270757

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Brent Taylor]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Thunderbird closed (and set as default email client) when I click on a "mailto"
link the compose message window opens fine and allows be to compose a message
alright but, if while still in the compose window, I need to start Thunderbird
itself to refer to another message, I cannot.  Thunderbird will not open while
an instance of message compose is already running.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Find a "mailto" link on the Web
2. Begin composing a message
3. Try starting Thunderbird

Actual Results:  
The window entitled "Compose: (no subject) flashes on the taskbar and dominates.

Expected Results:  
The window should have remained open, and Thunderbird should have been permitted
to run as a separate instance.

As far as I know my computer is quite ordinary.  It's a Dell Inspiron 2200, only
a few months old, with Windows XP Pro as the OS.  I have not fiddled with
program/thread priority or anything else that would cause this hitch.

I did see a similar (I think) bug description when I looked, but it was for a
MAC OS computer.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of bug 226179 comment 2.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The Compose window's Tools menu allows you to switch to the main window, or open 
it if it isn't already.

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