519411 - Delete message should close the tab

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 498141

(Thunderbird :: Toolbars and Tabs, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090915 Thunderbird/3.0b4

When message are opened in tabs and option "Close message window on delete" is enabled, hitting the delete button or delete key should close the message tab.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Check options in "Advanced/Reading & Display": "Open messages in:" = "A new tab" and "Close message window on delete" is checked
2.open a message: it opens in a new tab
3.hit the delete button or delete key
Actual Results:  
Message is deleted,
Tab displays next message or the previous message if the deleted message was at the bottom of the list

Expected Results:  
Message is deleted
And tab is closed.

Comment 1

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Based on bug #498141 comment #15 this should be a dupe of bug #498141.

Feel free to reopen it if I'm wrong.