641070 - Should return to the Inbox after closing the most recently opened email tab.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 508776

(Thunderbird :: Toolbars and Tabs, defect)

Description

[[e-mail]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15 GTB7.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9

On opening an email, it opens in a new tab at the right end of the row of tabs. If I finish with that email and decide to close the tab, I should be returned to the Inbox view rather than the email tab to the left of the one that I just closed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open an email in the Inbox to create a new tab. Other emails should already be open.
2. Click the 'X" on the newly opened tab to close it.
3. Focus goes to the tab to the left of the one just closed. It should go to the Inbox tab/Pane.
Actual Results:  
The focus goes to the tab to the left of the one just closed.

Expected Results:  
The focus should go to the Inbox or Mail Pane so I can open another email if I wish.

Comment 1

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

I'm pretty certain this is a dupe of another bug about child tabs returning to the parent/opening tab after being closed