505976 - [OS X] 3.0b3 Unable to save searches from the search box

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 503516

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Piers Meynell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Thunderbird/3.0b3

While it is possible to create saved searches (Virtual Folders) by going the Edit > Find > Search Messages > [search] > Save search as a folder route, attempting to save a search made from the search box at the top right of the main window fails - the dialogue to name the virtual folder, specify mailboxes to search etc never appears.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click upon a mailbox
2. Enter a string to search for in the search input box on the top right of the window to perform a search
3. Click upon the magnifying glass on the left of the search box and select "Save search as a folder"
Actual Results:  
The Save Search window which lets you name a search, specify which folders to search, change the search parameters, etc fails to appear. 
Very quickly the status bar displays multiple short messages the last being "Loading Message" 

Expected Results:  
The Save Search window should appear. It functions if you go through the menus to reach this route (Edit > Find > Search Messages > [search] > Save search as a folder), and has worked in earlier beta releases.

This bug occurs with no addons enabled and while using the Thunderbird default theme.
The version of OS X this occured on was 10.5.7 on both Intel and PPC macs.
I can reproduce this bug on multiple Macs.

A workaround for this bug is to rather than attempt to create Saved Searches (Virtual Folders) from the search box on the top right of the Thunderbird window to do: Edit > Find > Search Messages > [search] > Save search as a folder