442038 - Deletion of eMail-Address by holding 'Backspace' down may accidentally remove multiple (up to all) entries.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 170292

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Peter Fischer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; InfoPath.1)
Build Identifier: http://mozilla.isc.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/2.0.0.14/win32/de/Thunderbird%20Setup%202.0.0.14.exe

DELetion of 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. eMail-Adress while holding 'Backspace' down will NOT end until ALL entries (above AND BELOW) are DELeted !-(

At minimum expected behaviour (-: DELETiON ends at BOL (Beginn Of Line) :-)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[rsx11m]

Some may consider this a useful feature rather than a bug. ;-)

For SeaMonkey, this has been declared intended behavior in bug 367101, which shouldn't imply though that Thunderbird couldn't change it. Personally, I found myself a couple of times trying to delete an address or two (especially with a Reply to All), then holding that button down for too long and running into the previous entry.

On the other hand, there is bug 143147, seeking for a more intuitive way to remove unwanted addresses from the recipient list. While that bug is not explicitly addressing the backspace-key issue here, it may provide a way to delete addresses which makes the backspace-key problem less relevant.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Ron, could you seek a dupe?  I and perhaps clarkbw would be cc on the bug where this was discussed.

Comment 3

[rsx11m]

Correct, it is! Apparently I missed that bug when searching the first time...