402301 - "Show Image" button seems to retain focus even once it disappears. In wide view

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 308875

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[Adam H. Peterson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.8 (Ubuntu-feisty)
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.4 (20070625)

When viewing a HTML email message (I'm using the three-pane side-by-side view) that contains images, there is a "Show Images" button that must be pressed to see (remote?) images referenced in the message.

After I press this button, the images show up and the button disappears, as I would expect.  However, if I then press <Space Bar> to scroll the message in the message pane, the message scrolls down briefly and then seems to reload once again at the top of the message.

I assume this is because the "show images" button is still receiving events, such as the space bar.  If I click somewhere else in the UI (e.g. on the message body or on the message list in the middle pane or on the folder list), the behavior stops and <Space Bar> again scrolls the message without problem.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select a HTML message in the message list that has images requiring the "Show Images" button.
2. Click on "Show Images".
3. Press the space bar.
Actual Results:  
Message scrolls briefly and then reloads back at the top of the message.

Expected Results:  
Space bar should simply scroll the message down a screenful.

Comment 1

[Ken Jones]

Thunderbird 3.0 version 3.0a1pre (2008040103) 
BuildID=2008040103
Freespire 2.0 / Ubuntu 7.04

When Load Images is selected the focus appears to remain in that frame, so when the space bar is used to scroll, returns content to top of message, but if the body of the message is selected (click in the content frame) space bar works normally.

Issue: Load Images takes focus from body content frame when selected, resulting in unexpected space bar behavior (returning to top of content)

Comment 2

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

Is it intended functionality?

Potential UI issue -> cc'ing Bryan.

Comment 3

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

Sounds like a bug, doesn't seem too high priority since we're actively working on bug 449691 (new message reader)