549078 - View Message Body As with Saved File

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[davewilk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100205 SeaMonkey/2.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100216 Thunderbird/3.0.2

In TB3 and SM2, if I save a message as a .eml file and then open it from the File
menu, it opens in a new window in which the "View Message Body As" feature does
not work. The selection button moves, but the view does not change.

This only happens with a saved file. If a regular message is displayed in a
separate window, the "View Message Body As" feature works correctly.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Choose any text/html message that has non-trivial HTML content and save it as a .eml file.

2. Open the file in TB3 or SM2

3. Try to change the "View Message Body As" setting.
Actual Results:  
The selection button moves, but the display does not change


Expected Results:  
The display of the message should change to the new selection.

I think this problem is related to the fact that the "View Message Body As" selection is a global setting. If you change it for the displayed message then it is changed for subsequent messages.

I personally do not like this behavior. I think there should be a default setting that is is used for all newly displayed messages, and View Message Body As should override this for the current message only.

I don't think the bug reported here would have occurred if this was the way things were supposed to work.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Have you tried safe mode? (see https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode for more information)

Was this already the case in 2.x ?

Comment 2

[E.J. Sexton]

I encountered this bug as well. As per your suggestion, I tried opening the .eml message in Thunderbird (Safe Mode) and encountered the same problem.

Workaround: 
Close the .eml file, change the "View Message Body As" setting, and then reopen the .eml file. This will render the message with the new setting.

Comment 3

[Lionel Elie Mamane]

I get this bug, too, with Tunderbird 3.1.9.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

anything in error console?

Comment 5

[E.J. Sexton]

Seems to work for me now. I'm currently using Thunderbird 14.0 on Windows 7 64-bit.

I did get some security notices when I switch formats, but that may be related to the email I tried:

Security Error: Content at moz-nullprincipal:{de95b9b4-0fbf-491e-826b-60636ddda2fb} may not load or link to about:blank.

Comment 6

[Onno Ekker [:nONoNonO UTC+1]]

This doesn't work for me, using Thunderbird Daily on Windows 7.
But I think this is a duplicate of bug 310341...