324282 - Automatically focus the input box when the Search Messages dialog opens

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 243124

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[larry]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Please put cursor in search into 'keywords' box.

When bringing up the 'Search Messages' window, the cursor is not placed.

Instead, consider the 80% case (IMHO), which is to search for some keywords using the current folder, etc. So the most convenient position for the cursor is in the text box where keywords are entered, so that user can type in keyword(s) and then hit 'enter' to being search.

thanks,

larry

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
bring up search window: see where cursor is placed (automatically).
Actual Results:  
cursor is placed nowhere (not sure, but if you hit 'tab', you seem to get first item on page; if you just start typing, nothing happens).

Expected Results:  
start typing-->appears in text box for keywords for search.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

dup

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 243124 ***