456311 - Beep when cmd keys are used for copy until menu is selected (read mail display)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Widget: Cocoa, defect)

Description

[Chris Andrichak]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.22
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20080921025336 Shredder/3.0b1pre

When you start TBird (Shredder), if you highlight a section of text in an email and hit command-C to copy it, the system beep sounds like you've hit an incorrect key (and the menu bar does not flash). The copy does happen though. This keeps happening until you at least once try using the copy command from the menu with the mouse, and then everything works normally.

The compose window works normally despite this, and using copy/paste in the compose window (with the keyboard) doesn't change the beeping problem with the main window. Only using the menu fixes it.

Marking as major since it's so darn annoying and seems pretty commonplace.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I agree the menu doesn't flash, but I don't get any system beep sounds.

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

The beep-or-not thing is apparently 10.5 (Mark, and me, mostly) versus 10.4 (Chris, and me under duress). Regression range is somewhere between my build from 2008041600 and my build from 2008042013, a range which looks like it was the start of round 2 of keyhell.

Chris, it would be an enormous help if you could download the nightlies in that range (April 16th-20th) from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/2008/04/ and let us know both whether my 10.5 no-flash range is the same as your 10.4 system-beep range, and exactly which nightlies are the last-to-work and first-to-fail.

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Oh, my range was a smidgen off, since I had the cause in my tree before it landed :(

Regression from the backout of the hackaround in bug 382138, because we thought the patch from bug 398514 had completely fixed things, instead of fixing thing so they work, but this case beep on 10.4 and fail to flash on 10.4 and 10.5.

Comment 4

[Chris Andrichak]

(In reply to comment #2)
> 
> Chris, it would be an enormous help if you could download the nightlies in that
> range (April 16th-20th) from
> ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/2008/04/ and let us
> know both whether my 10.5 no-flash range is the same as your 10.4 system-beep
> range, and exactly which nightlies are the last-to-work and first-to-fail.

Using the nightlies,
Apr 20 is fine
Apr 21 beeps

Comment 5

[Lint Hasenpfeffer]

Also happens with current nightly when trying to view source.

Comment 6

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

philor: if this bug doesn't get any traction soon, should we just put the hackaround back in?

Comment 7

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Filed bug 473038 on hacking around it on the Tb3 branch, once we have a branch.

(In reply to comment #6)
> philor: if this bug doesn't get any traction soon

Hahaha.

Comment 8

[Peter Magyari (Desktop QA)]

Since this is a very old report and I cannot reproduce the issue myself I'd like to close it.

Chris, have you seen this issue on the more recent versions of Firefox since?

Thanks!

Comment 9

[Chris Andrichak]

Have not seen in many years. Ok to close.

Comment 10

[Peter Magyari (Desktop QA)]

Thanks Chris, sorry for the old poke.