Closed Bug 573045 Opened 15 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Selecting Option to Hide Message Pane (F8) Will Not Stick After Reboot or Process Termination

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Mail Window Front End
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: spammaaja, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [closeme 2012-03-01])

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; fi; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; fi; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Thunderbird/3.0.5 If hiding the message preview pane is chosen (either via unticking the menu selection of via pressing the F8 key), the option to keep the pane hidden is always lost when computer is restarted while TB is running or when TB is terminated with Task Manager. This issue was supposed to have been fixed (518345) in 3.0.5, but it's not. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Disable the message pane (F8 or via menu View->Layout->Message Pane) 2. While having TB running, either reboot computer or terminate thunderbird.exe with Task Manager, Process Explorer or with an equivalent program 3. Restart Thunderbird Actual Results: Message pane shows on restart of TB. Expected Results: Message pane should stay hidden until menu item reticked or F8 pressed. Workaround: close Thunderbird via File->Quit before shutting down Windows.
Version: unspecified → 3.0
I can confirm it on 3.0.5 too as I said in the last comment 66 in bug518345
Ain't sure this is valid prefs are saved on shutdown and that's a pref.
This code will save prefs, so we could save prefs before the app is shutdown, when certain prefs are changed. Components.classes["@mozilla.org/preferences-service;1"] .getService(Components.interfaces.nsIPrefService) .savePrefFile(null);
Version: 3.0 → 3.1
The bug also exists in 3.1 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; fi; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1)
"Ain't sure this is valid prefs are saved on shutdown and that's a pref." I think Windows *terminates* running programs when you shut down/restart your computer (the program won't get a quit event). When you quit TB, the message pane stays hidden, but when you terminate (kill) TB, it comes back.
I believe I'm running into this in Xubuntu 10.04 64bit as well. When I shut down my computer, I typically just let it handle closing things for me. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.0.6
This may be better in Thunderbird 3.1.3 (out at the start of September) where we have made some fixes (in bug 575864)
Depends on: 575864
This is still a problem on Thunderbird 3.1.2 on Mac OS X. If you close the Thunderbird window but don't quit out of Thunderbird the message pane reappears. The quick filter bar also reappears - is this the same or a separate bug?
(In reply to comment #8) > This is still a problem on Thunderbird 3.1.2 on Mac OS X. If you close the > Thunderbird window but don't quit out of Thunderbird the message pane > reappears. Please read the previous comment to your one, especially noting the versions: (In reply to comment #7) > This may be better in Thunderbird 3.1.3 (out at the start of September) where > we have made some fixes (in bug 575864) > The quick filter bar also reappears - is this the same or a > separate bug? I believe this is the same bug.
Reporter, do you still see this problem when using a current version of thunderbird? And if you do not, please close bug report by changing resolution to worksforme
Whiteboard: [closeme 2012-03-01]
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE due to lack of response to last question. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
Still a problem with 17.05....
im on release channel (version 31.6.0) and have the very same problem. i have never used CCleaner or anything similar. message pane keeps coming back, its a PITA.
I can confirm this bug still exists in version 45.2. I am not using CCleaner. Using F8 to disable the Message Pane when Thunderbird starts is a manual workaround, but there should be some way to save the layout preferences. Not only that but Thunderbird starts without showing the last selected mailbox. 7 years is a long time to wait for a very visible bug to be fixed. If this is not going to be fixed, is there an Add-On available that can automatically hide the Message Pane and offer an automatic workaround? I would be satisfied with that.
(In reply to efeaglehouse@gmail.com from comment #15) I am using Ubuntu Linux 14.04 x86-64 with a Cinnamon 2.6.12 desktop.
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