654457 - [en-us] Grammatical error in status bar message: "authorization... was succeeded" instead of "...was successful"

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[david streever]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.60 Safari/534.24
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.10

When I turn on Mozilla Thunderbird (or go online), I see a stream of messages at the bottom, in the small status bar which shows notifications, progress of upload/download, unread messages number, total messages number, etc. The message flashes:
"authorization for "(MY ACCOUNT NAME HERE)" was succeeded"

I know this is a very minor thing, but it should was, "was successful".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Turn on Thunderbird, in online mode (or switch from offline mode to online)
2. Watch network status bar
3.

Actual Results:  
The message saying "was succeeded" 

Expected Results:  
A message saying "was successful".

I may be completely incorrect! It just reads very odd. Perhaps my knowledge of English grammar is incorrect. In that event, sorry folks!

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

I probably need a new pair of eyes but I'm not seeing anything related in a simple search at http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/search?string=succeeded&case=on&find=%2F&findi=&filter=^[^\0]*%24&hitlimit=&tree=comm-central . Wondering if we are building this string.

Comment 2

[david streever]

Ludovic:
Hm, it is one of the messages that run at the very bottom bar, where it also says "[account] is up to date" when it has done a synch with the server.

I do have a few plug-ins--Calendar, Lightning, and Zindus--but none of those work with my main email account (the name which shows at the bottom when it gives me the "was succeeded" message), so I don't think they are related. I may be wrong.

Comment 3

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

More oddly, I've seen a lot of status messages that claim to have done something (past tense) while they haven't done that action yet, which results in confusion about what state we are actually in and where we get stuck e.g. when Pop server goes offline while we're downloading.

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

I suspect that the respective strings of status bar messages have changed since TB 3.1 against which this was reported.

FTR:

"Authorization for <account> was succeeded" is ungrammatical (as reported)

"Authorization for <account> has succeeded" is grammatical
"Authorization for <account> was successful" is grammatical
"Authorization for <account> succeeded" is grammatical

Some search results:
"authorization for" -> not found
"authorization" -> nothing that matches comment 0
http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/search?string=authorization&case=1&find=%2F&findi=&filter=^[^\0]*%24&hitlimit=&tree=comm-central

David S (reporter), the strings you mention in comment 0 are nowhere to be found in current comm-central (Trunk version of TB). Do you still see this in current version TB12?

Otherwise, this is wfm.


FTR: There was an addon to keep a history of status messages, I think this one:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1501589&highlight=statusmsghistory#1501589
However, the addon manipulates account settings and status messages, plus it's a bit old, so I didn't try this time.

If you see any useful addon that just allows you to keep a log / history of the last few status messages, let me know.