309753 - Freeze after clicking drop down select boxes in the message filter dialogs

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Roan Horning]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Thunderbird/1.4

When creating or editing message filters, if I click on either of the drop down
select boxes in the "Perform these actions" section of the message filters,
Thunderbird freezes.  The Macintosh spining beach ball appears and never goes
away. Neither of the select boxes shows any content when clicked.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. menu "Tools" -> "Message Filters..."
2. Add a new filter or edit a current filter
3. Click on either of the drop down select boxes in the "Perform these actions:"
section

Actual Results:  
It will show an empty box, approximately 1 text line in height. After releasing
the mouse Thunderbird will pause. The Macintosh spinning beachball "busy signal"
will appear.  Thunderbird becomes frozen and must be "force quit"

Expected Results:  
Allow selection of action/location wanted for the filter

Comment 1

[Roan Horning]

When trying to select a folder from a drop box in the search messages dialog, a
similar freeze occured using Thunderber Beta 2 (20051006)

Comment 2

[Roan Horning]

Attachment: Picture example of frozen thunderbird after selection in message filter box

Comment 3

[Roan Horning]

Attachment: Picture example of frozen thunderbird after selection in search dialog box

Comment 4

[Roan Horning]

The attachment pictures are from 1.5RC2 on Max OS 10.2.8 on a Powerbook Pismo.

The freeze now occurs in the message filter dialog when using the drop down selection box which allows you to select a mail folder to either "Move Message to" or "Copy Message to".  All other drop down boxes are working.

The freeze also occures in the search message dialog when using the drop down box "Search for messages in:" to select a mail folder to search.

Comment 5

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Reporter, does the issue still occur in the latest supported 2.0.0.x / trunk nightlies?

(1.5.0.x is now end-of-life and the latest supported 2.0.0.x is 2.0.0.16)

Comment 6

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESO INCO per lack of response to last question. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.