92108 - loss of focus makes keyboard navigation in mail folder pane unusable

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 70097

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Stefan Magdalinski]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)
BuildID:    20010723

when a new mail folder is selected using the arrow keys, the focus switches to 
the thread pane. This means that you then have to TAB twice to get back to the 
folder pane to do any more scrolling. This means that navigating up and down a 
long list of folders (without counting how many you want to move, and hitting 
the arrow the correct number of times), is slow, and unnecessarily difficult. 

I believe that 4.x did the right thing, (i.e. leave focus with the thread pane, 
until you TAB off it), but I haven't checked.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. In mailnews, TAB to select a folder in the folder pane
2. use the down arrow to select a new folder
3. use the down arrow a couple more times.

Actual Results:  you've scrolled down a couple of messages in the new folder

Expected Results:  you should have scrolled down a couple more folders.

Comment 1

[Ninoschka Baca]

This is a duplicate of bug# 70097. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70097 ***

Comment 2

[Ninoschka Baca]

Verified Duplicate.