306389 - blank address list select popup when press right and then down arrow

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Dimitris Glezos]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050720 Fedora/1.0.6-1.1.fc4 Firefox/1.0.6

In Message Compose Window, when typing some charaters in a To/CC field and
selecting an entry from the popup window using the right arrow key, by pressing
the down arrow key the popup re-opens (has the same number of lines as the
previous) but has no content in it (it is empty).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose message
2. Type a charater at the To: field
3. From the address list popup, select something by pressing the right arrow key
4. Press the down arrow key

Actual Results:  
Blank address-list popup appears with the same number of lines as the previous
one but with no suggestions inside

Expected Results:  
Re-open the address-list suggestion popup with the suggestions

Comment 1

[Kostas Papadimas]

Same behaviour in the latest MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH thunderbird build....

Comment 2

[Edward Yang]

I am still having this problem with TB 1.5 release.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This WFM with 2a1-X11/0909.  Can you try a 2a1 build and see if it's still a problem for you?  I think there was some cleanup on the overall handling of arrow keys in the addressing fields.

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> This WFM with 2a1-X11/0909.  Can you try a 2a1 build and see if it's still a
> problem for you?  I think there was some cleanup on the overall handling of
> arrow keys in the addressing fields.
> 
WFM also on Thunderbird 3.0a1. Given no other comments since comment 3. Closing as WFM.