306253 - Mozilla Thunderbird Alpha 2 does not allow more than a single read-message window open

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Emil Simeonov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+

Try to review your mail and you won't succeed into opening more than 1 separate
message window. Now this might be a feature (as far as I get it) but it's not
really well implemented.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:



Expected Results:  
One might think that a single window for reading e-mail messages is a good idea
but just in the case when open messages are appended into new tabs or sth.

People sometimes like using separate windows or just one BUT tabified. In any
case such thing should be configurable. Otherwise going through mail proved to
be really tedious for me. 

Good examples are: All the IMs I have ever used, Internet browsers, text
editors, etc.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

version 1.6a1 (20050828)

Works for me. I can open as many new message windows as I want to. 

Comment 2

[Emil Simeonov]

Since I am not aware how to check it better, this is what I found in my Help ->
About window. And this issue persists with me. 

version 1.0+ (20050712)

Obviously your build is newer. Yet my binary is the official one (for Alpha 2),
which I have found on the mozilla web site today (08/28/2005 EET).

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

Works for me in the latest branch version (20050827). Just double-click on a
message and a window will open.

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I'm seeing this in both thunderbird 1.0.x and nightly branch builds (20050829
/linux). Don't know if it's a bug or not.  

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Um... there is a preference controlling this behavior:

  Tools | Options | Advanced | General
  Open new messages in:
    () A new message window    () An existing message window