76607 - keys typed while message compose window loads freeze mozilla

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Found while testing fix to bug 62452, "message compose window should have To 
field focused as soon as it opens".

Steps to reproduce:
1. In Navigator, press Ctrl+M to open a Message Compose window.
2. Immediately start typing "afjkldsfjkl;asflasdjfljasflasj;akljf;ask"

Result: some keys land in Navigator, and most are lost.  Each lost key causes 
the Message Compose window to take longer to load (on the order of a third of a 
second per key).  Depending on the timing, the slowdown might happen before the 
window appears (but after its taskbar icon appears), or it might happen while 
the window is visible and the address compose widget is filling in its extra 
rows.

Expected result: no freeze; some keys go to navigator, some are lost, and then 
the rest go to the address widget.  (Ideally, all keys would go to the address 
widget, but that's probably another bug.)

Comment 1

[scottputterman]

cc'ing varada and hyatt

Comment 2

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

I 've try this couple of time using 0.9.4 on Windows and I haven't be able to
reproduce the problem. Neither the freeze or the performance degradation. WFM

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

I just get garbage inputted into the To: widget's field.

10-11, trunk, all OSs...

Verified WFM.