718216 - Message focus change overrides my selection when removing quick filter

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 699026

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Antranig Basman]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.75 Safari/535.7

Steps to reproduce:

Steps in order:
i) Add a filter to select a subset of messages in my inbox
ii) Select a particular message from the subset
iii) Remove the filter by pressing X in the filter box
iv) Select a different message from the unfiltered set of messages


Actual results:

Some seconds after selecting my message in step iv), a very slow process reacting to the filter removal iii) changed the message focus back to the message that I selected in ii) (I have around 20,000 messages in my inbox, so this process is extremely slow and annoying - I can select a new message and try to start working, and up to 10 seconds later my selection is overridden)


Expected results:

After selecting a new message in step iv) my selection should have been honoured and not overridden by the asynchronous process trying to restore my selection at step ii)

Comment 1

[Antranig Basman]

Note that this behaviour has been present in Thunderbird for as long as I can remember (since around version 3 or so) but becomes steadily more annoying the more messages I have in my inbox

Comment 2

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to Antranig Basman from comment #1)
If you double-click the message, it stays open in another tab.