519818 - [faceted search] sorting results by date doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 523303

(Thunderbird :: Search, defect)

Description

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090930 Shredder/3.0pre

steps

1 do a faceted search for "wayne"
2 search results show 10 out of 47 messages, folders are Drafts, Inbox, Sent
3 first 4 messages are messages from me to Wayne (and today is Wednesday):
Thomas (yesterday),
Thomas (Montag),
Thomas (22:50)
Thomas (yesterday)
I understand they are currently sorted by mysterious "relevance" criterion
4 click on "sort by: date"

Actual results:
- no changes whatsoever (only starred 0 and attachments 0 pop up on the left, why weren't they there in the first place?)
- messages not sorted by date, still as above in 3

Expected results:
- messages should be sorted by date:
Thomas (Montag)
Thomas (yesterday)
Thomas (yesterday)
Thomas (22:50)
(with my 47 results, it would probably look different, but you know what I mean)

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Thomas anything in Tools -> Error console just after you click on the date sort ?

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Warning: Cannot specify value for internal property.  Error in parsing value for '-x-system-font'.  Declaration dropped.
Source File: chrome://messenger/content/glodaFacetView.xhtml
Line: 0

Comment 3

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Could not convert JavaScript argument arg 0 [nsIObserverService.removeObserver]"  nsresult: "0x80570009 (NS_ERROR_XPC_BAD_CONVERT_JS)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://messenger/content/search.xml ::  :: line 293"  data: no]

Comment 4

[Alex Ihrig [:Thunderbird_Mail_DE]]

Confirming this bug in 3.0pre 20091001 win32 builds.

Sorting by date doesn't work. Todays build doesn't show relevant errors in console (only some xhtml "-x-system-font" errors).

After clicking on the "Sort by Date" button, the left column unhides the "flagged" option.