569505 - Message scrolls to the top when tab is focused

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 487386

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[winitgator]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100423 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.3
Build Identifier: 3.0.4

If I have one or more messages open in tabs and I scroll to any point in any message, then go back to the Inbox tab or another email's tab, then once again open the first email's tab, the scroll position is lost and I go back to the top of the message.  This is especially inconvenient when trying to use two long messages as references to each other (ex paragraph 26 in Message A references a paragraph that is 200 lines down in Message B)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a long message in a new tab
2. Scroll down as much as you want (to the bottom works great)
3. Go back to the Index tab
4. Go back to the message's tab
5. AHHH!! The scroll position is gone! :(
Actual Results:  
My scroll position is lost.

Expected Results:  
The scroll position should have stayed the same (just like what firefox does).

Comment 1

[adam]

This is also happening for me using 3.0.4 on Windows.