Closed Bug 325050 Opened 19 years ago Closed 18 years ago

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Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Mail Window Front End
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
critical

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 279001

People

(Reporter: jherek, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

When using the keyboard shortcut for "Select All", the View of the message window changes to "All".  This is inconsistent with "Edit > Select All".  It is also wrong: "Select All" should select everything in the current view, as it does everywhere else, it should not change the view.  

What makes the bug particular insidious is that it's hard to notice what happens: it took me a while to figure out what was going on.  I have lost several hundred email messages because of this (Select All, followed by drag), and I'm not happy--you have to be really careful when you change the meaning of keyboard shortcuts because people rely on them!

Reproducible: Always
Thunderbird version of Suite bug 258888?
... and duplicate of bug 279001?
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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