380462 - Using ctrl-g in message pane highlights a message header (from or subject)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Jack Eidsness]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a5pre) Gecko/20070511 Minefield/3.0a5pre
Build Identifier: version 3.0a1 (20070511)

If I try to repeat a find using ctrl-G, it does work, and one occurrence after another is highlighted.
Also, however, the subject of the message becomes highlighted. It's a little confusing, but apparently not troublesome.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to find something, using "/pattern" or "ctrl-f," "pattern"
2. ctrl-g

Actual Results:  
The subject line becomes is highlighted.  Keyboard focus is stolen. If no additional occurrences exist the first time you try this, it can be quite confusing because you don't know whether it would have worked or not without doing additional tests.
If you want to change your search pattern, you have to do ctrl-f, again, (you cannot re-use the quickfind, using "/" without tabbing or clicking to the message body display area).

Expected Results:  
nothing on screen would change when I hit ctrl-g unless another occurrence of PATTERN was found.  Keyboard focus would remain in the pattern text area of quick find or regular find.

The only extension I have is "NestedQuote Remover" 0.7.17.

Comment 1

[Jack Eidsness]

I was just taking a look at bugs I'd submitted, and I see that this is still highlighting the subject line in today's Shredder nightly.

version 3.0a2pre (2008072103)

Comment 2

[Jack Eidsness]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081120 Shredder/3.0b1pre

This bug is not exactly gone, but it has changed slightly.  Instead of highlighting the subject in blue, as before, it's now outlining the From line with a dotted line.  The word "from" and the address jiggles up or over by a pixel to accomodate the outline.  It would appear that it's a matter of which header is the first one shown?

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

WFM on current trunk