541116 - Tabs displaying opened emails switch to other emails

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Penelope Graveyard :: Mail Window, defect, P1)

Description

[Jean-Francois]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/3.0.195.38 Safari/532.0
Build Identifier: Eudora 8.0b8

Greetings,

Since Eudora 8 beta 7, I've had problems with emails opened in tabs.  Say that I open emails A, B, C in tabs, then quit Eudora (completely).  When I would re-open Eudora, only email A might still be open; or emails A, B, C, D, E might be open.

In Eudora 8 beta 8, this is a lot worse.  Say that I have emails A and B open in tabs.  When I close the tab of email B, email B appears in the tab of email A!  At times it's more random: closing a tab causes a random (recent) email to appear in the next tab to be brought forward.

Essentially, tabs are now unusable.  I miss Eudora 7 which allowed me to leave 25 emails open, minimized at the bottom of the mail window, for further attention.  They would always re-appear, even after a crash, in the same order.

Thank you,

Jean-Francois

Reproducible: Always




I played around with the tabs options in the 'Penelope' part of Eudora's 'Options...', but I couldn't solve the problem.

Comment 1

[Matt Dudziak]

I'm seeing this too. Not really reproducible, but it is happening.

Comment 2

[Matt Dudziak]

Actually I have a reproducible case for me:

- With only the Inbox displayed, open 2 messages in tabs
- Note tabs have correct titles
- Click each of the tabs
- Click each of the tabs again
- At this point the 2 non-inbox tabs will have the same title and content.

Comment 3

[Jean-Francois]

The problem occurs when a message in a tab is viewed in the main Eudora window.  Closing the active tab, or clicking on another tab, causes the problem.  However, closing an inactive tab doesn't cause the problem.

A similar problem occurs with mailboxes opened in tabs.

Comment 4

[Jeff Beckley]

For those with initiative, this bug is fixed in the Penelope hg source code
depot: <http://hg.mozilla.org/penelope/rev/0599b6869a79>.

Otherwise you'll have to wait until the next release, Eudora 8 beta 9/Penelope
1.0b1.