326364 - Custom headers.. can't tab

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Charles Schluting]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/417.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/417.8
Build Identifier: 1.5

Since version 1.5, something broke. When using a custom email header, I can no longer use <tab> to a) move to the menu and select my custom header, and b) move back over to the text entry field and begin typing my custom header. This now requires two clicks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click COMPOSE
2. Enter an email in the To: field. Hit enter, then <shift><tab>
3. You should be in the header selection menu, but no, with version 1.5 now you're back where you just typed in the To: header's text input field.

Actual Results:  
Described Above.

Expected Results:  
Described Above.

Adding two clicks per email makes sending emails 119% slower for me. (yes, that's a real statistic)
:)

Comment 1

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

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

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

Comment 2

[Charles Schluting]

Indeed, 2.0.0.16 in OS X - I still cannot tab over to the header selection menu. It just moves to (and creates) the next To: field.

Comment 3

[Charles Schluting]

Er, that was probably confusing. I meant to say that pressing tab moves to the Subject line, then to the body. I used to conveniently be able to tab to the header selection menu. 

Comment 4

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

This is possibly intended behaviour, and pressing tab more times just means that you can select more options using the keyboard.

I tested on an intel mac in 10.5 and I can still reach the header selection menu, albeit with more tab presses.

Comment 5

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

WFM on Linux.

1. Note that Pressing <Enter> creates a new header field (defaulting to `To:' for mail) and selects the next field entry. <Shift>-<Tab> from here goes back to the header selection menu.
2. Pressing <Tab> w/o <Enter> moves to subject
3. <Shift>-<Tab> goes between all fields in reverse as expected.

-> RESO WFM