584966 - Message Pane is automatically re-enabled when restarting Thunderbird while an email window is still open.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 575864

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[RobSharp]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0

I frequently open and close the main TB window while working and often still have an email window open fro a previous session. When re-opening the main TB window the Message Pane gets automatically turned on. 

When TB opens normally ( i.e. when it has been fully closed off including all message windows) then the message pane is correctly turned off. Something about relaunching TB while a message window is still open is causing the Message Pane to get turned back on.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Thunderbird. 
2. Ensure Message Pane is off (F8 to toggle)
3. Double click on any email to open it in a separate window
4. Close main TB window
5. Reopen main TB window with your usual shortcut
6. Message pane will now be re-enabled
Actual Results:  
Message Pane gets re-enabled

Expected Results:  
Message pane should remain off as per program preferences

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.8)
> Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C)
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.23)
> Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0

please fix , see http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/Build+number+not+displayed


Your issue looks like a duplicate of bug 575864. Can you try a build from http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-1.9.2/ and let me know if it fixes your issue ?

Comment 2

[RobSharp]

Apologies, there is the build number after running that correction:-

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.2

I'll try a build from that branch and let you know.

Comment 3

[RobSharp]

It does indeed seem to resolve this issue. I'll attempt to mark as a duplicate.