508859 - windows 7: message list doesn't scroll to show new messages like it did on win XP

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 539468

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[Karl Zagan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.0.13) Gecko/2009073022 Firefox/3.0.13
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.22 (20090605)

I sort my messages with oldest at the top and newest at the bottom. On Win XP this worked fine - a new message would show up in the list automatically. I wouldn't have to scroll down to see it.
On Windows 7, however, I do have to scroll down to see the new messages. This is a pain.
If I sort messages with the newest message at the top of the message list, this works fine on both XP and win 7, but if I sort with newest messages at the bottom, it works on XP but not on win7. 
This makes me a SAAAAAAAD Panda. :(


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use Windows 7. Sort messages oldest at the top, newest at the bottom.
2.Send yourself a new message. Watch it NOT show up in the list until you scroll down.
3.Use Windows XP. Try step 1 and step 2 - it works fine.
Actual Results:  
New message doesn't appear in list until I scroll down.

Expected Results:  
I shouldn't have to scroll down to see a new message in the list.
Yes, it's incredibly hard and painful to scroll down myself or to sort my list in a way that actually works because doing either one makes my ears bleed. :)

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

jim, veritas,do you see this problem?

Comment 2

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Karl could you try to see if it still happens with
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-1.9.1/ ?

Comment 4

[Veritas]

this is a long time delayed, but wayne, yes, i do have this issue as well, but it isn't a concern to me. i dont even recall it ever being different.