482616 - Always load remote images doesn't work for OSX address book which is read-only

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 486479

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Mitra Ardron]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021906 Firefox/3.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4pre) Gecko/20090308 Shredder/3.0b3pre

If you click "Always load remote images" for a message where the address is in OSX then it doesn't appear to work, although it marks that field in the address book record, this status isn't retained for the next session.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open message from someone in OSX Address book that contains images
2.Click "Always load remote images"
3. Notice how it seems to behave strange, remains focused 
3.Click the blue star and View Details
4. Notice Always load images is checked
5. Quit TB and restart
6. Navigate to same message
7. Click Blue Star - 
8. Notice Always Load Images is no longer checked


Expected Results:  
I think it should retain the status, which, since TB can't write to the OSX Address Book yet, may need some info about Address Book that is TB specific.

If that is not possible, or happening soon - which seems likely - I think TB should default to Load Images for any addresses retrieved from OSX Address book

Comment 2

[Mitra Ardron]

I've re-opened this bug, as the "fix" to Bug #465577 doesn't in any way fix the problem on OSX. 

There are numerous other bugs relating to unwritable address books and not being able to flag for allowing remote images in filters.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

potentially helped by bug 391057

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

current direction is bug 486479