582175 - Remember last selected message should work across sessions (after restart)

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[Nathan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.1.1

By default, Thunderbird 3.1.1 remembers the last selected message when folders are changed.  However, when the program is closed and re-opened, selected messages are forgotten, and no message is initially shown for each folder.  Last selected message should be remembered across sessions.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Thunderbird, select a message.
2.Close Thunderbird.
3.Open Thunderbird.  No message is selected.
Actual Results:  
No message is selected when program is opened.

Expected Results:  
Last selected message in each folder should be remembered, even when Thunderbird is restarted.

-Bug 268879 dealt with this same issue in Thunderbird 2 and was apparently fixed, but the problem definitely occurs for me again in 3.1.1 (and possibly earlier revisions of 3).

-The last selected *folder* is correctly remembered on restart.  Only the message is forgotten.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Is this all the time ?

Nathan can you try to follow the instructions at http://www.rumblingedge.com/2009/02/24/howto-find-regression-windows-through-manual-binary-search/ and figure out when this regressed ?

Comment 2

[Nathan]

No, apparently I can't.  I backed up my profile and tried to revert to Thunderbird 3.1.  After installing, I got this message when I tried to run: 

Thunderbird is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Thunderbird process, or restart your system.

Checked; the process isn't running.  Even restarted - same thing.  Uninstalled and re-installed.  Same.  Switched back to 3.1.1.  STILL the same.  So now I'm going to go uninstall again then scour my registry and folders for any **** left behind.  Assuming I ever get Thunderbird working, I'm not going to be attempting this again, as I'm afraid I just don't have any more time to waste on it.

Comment 3

[Nathan]

OK, so I finally got TB to work by deleting the entire Thunderbird folder in APPDATA (not just the profile), then reinstalling.  Felt bad about giving up, so I decided to try and test.  Installed 3.1.  Need an email in a folder to test this, so created a dummy [e-mail] account.  Started writing an email and went to File/save to save it in the drafts folder.  It's now stuck forever at "Copying message to Drafts folder..."  Sigh...

Comment 4

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> OK, so I finally got TB to work by deleting the entire Thunderbird folder in
> APPDATA (not just the profile), then reinstalling.  Felt bad about giving up,
> so I decided to try and test.  Installed 3.1.  Need an email in a folder to
> test this, so created a dummy [e-mail] account.  Started writing an email
> and went to File/save to save it in the drafts folder.  It's now stuck forever
> at "Copying message to Drafts folder..."  Sigh...

anything in tools -> Error console ?

Did you install Thunderbird while being an administrator ?

Comment 5

[Michael A. Pasek]

Attachment: remember_selected_message setting

Confirming:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.1.1

Attaching screen shots.

Because I do not save passwords, I get a password prompt (actually, two of them) at startup.  It is possible that the focus moving to the password prompt may deselect the message.  While I did not include screen shots, menu selections which would normally be enabled when a message is selected (e.g., "Edit->Delete Message") are greyed out.

Comment 6

[Michael A. Pasek]

Attachment: Selected message before quit

Comment 7

[Michael A. Pasek]

Attachment: Same message after restart

Comment 8

[Mikhail Ryazanov]

Same behavior in 17.0.2 -- shows nothing after restart. (And there is no apparent option for any sort of "remembering".)

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Mikhail Ryazanov from comment #8)
> Same behavior in 17.0.2 -- shows nothing after restart. (And there is no
> apparent option for any sort of "remembering".)

Can you get a regression range by using comment 1?

Comment 10

[Mikhail Ryazanov]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk, use Needinfo for questions) from comment #9)
> (In reply to Mikhail Ryazanov from comment #8)
> > Same behavior in 17.0.2 -- shows nothing after restart.
> Can you get a regression range by using comment 1?

Probably, not.

www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird apparently has no links to any older versions, and I'm not sure that even if I solve the puzzle of finding them, these more-than-5-years-old versions will be able to install and work on my current system (looking at Nathan's struggles, I really doubt).

(I'm wondering why Mozilla's testers do not have a suite for regression tests of their own products. All "Steps to Reproduce" are clearly explained, so it will be much easier for them to do the tests themselves rather than ask other people to find/install/reinstall a lot of quite old stuff...)

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Mikhail Ryazanov from comment #10)
> (In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk, use Needinfo for questions) from comment #9)
> > (In reply to Mikhail Ryazanov from comment #8)
> > > Same behavior in 17.0.2 -- shows nothing after restart.
> > Can you get a regression range by using comment 1?
> 
> Probably, not.
> 
> www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird apparently has no links to any older
> versions, and I'm not sure that even if I solve the puzzle of finding them,
> these more-than-5-years-old versions will be able to install and work on my
> current system (looking at Nathan's struggles, I really doubt).

surely we wouldn't ask you to do something that is impossible.
And, the old versions are at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/ and http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/


> (I'm wondering why Mozilla's testers do not have a suite for regression
> tests of their own products. All "Steps to Reproduce" are clearly explained,
> so it will be much easier for them to do the tests themselves rather than
> ask other people to find/install/reinstall a lot of quite old stuff...)

Good observation. Well, given sufficient time and resources we could test everything for every bug reported.
But we limited amounts of both.

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Does this still reproduce for you?