495649 - Show content of the message indicated by the cursor when an other message is already selected

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 454829

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[Pas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090528 Minefield/3.6a1pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
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Currently Thunderbird shows a blank panel when selecting multiple messages.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to a folder with at least 2 messages
2. click on the first
3. hold down the SHIFT or CTRL key then click on an other message
Actual Results:  
The message content panel shows nothing.

Expected Results:  
The message panel should show the content of the message indicated by the cursor (dotted border).

I think it's a bug, it almos makes selecting multiple messages pointless.

One has to read a lot of messages, remember their subjects, then select them. This should be doable on-the-fly, while selecting messages.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

This has been fixed by bug 454829, TB now provides a summary of the messages selected.

Comment 2

[Pas]

Bug 454829 doesn't help with going through a folder reading and selecting messages. In its current state it shows the same information that's also available in the message list panel (subject, sender, date, size) and the summary isn't going to help that much. Its only functionality right now is for collapsed message threads.