Re: [orca-list] Thunderbird compose problem with experimental focus mode

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hey Kyle.

I was able to reproduce this and for me it is now fixed in master.
Please try again and thanks for the report!

--joanie

On 08/09/2014 01:41 PM, Kyle wrote:
> I'm experiencing an issue when composing a message in Thunderbird 31.0
> with the latest focus mode fixes. Writing a message is not causing a
> problem, but reading it back before sending it seems to get stuck.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1.  Set a signature in account preferences for the e-mail address that
> is to send the message.
> 2.  Be sure that messages are being sent from that address as plain text.
> 3.  Compose a message from the address with a signature. Write anything
> you like in the body of the message; no need to fill in a subject or
> even recipients at this point.
> 4.  Read from the top of the message, or just arrow down into the
> signature and try to go back up into the body of the message.
>
> The expected result is that I should end up back in the text of the
> message body itself. However, the result I see instead is that I can now
> only read the signature, and sometimes I can only read it using SayAll.
> The only way I've found that puts me back on the text of the message is
> either navigating back to the subject field and tabbing back into the
> message body or attempting to exit the message, which prompts me to save
> it as a draft, and then subsequently cancelling the save operation to
> return to the message body. This problem appears to be a side effect of
> the new experimental focus/browse mode, and seems to have become more of
> a problem since focus mode is now forced in the compose window and can't
> be changed manually. As it seems my debug.out files have suddenly become
> far too large to post here as attachments, I'm linking to it here
> instead. You can find the debug.out with the compose problem I describe at
> https://cloud.kyle.tk/public.php?service=files&t=0138579d76a6e8f4c42b674d3e6af873&download
> Thanks for any help.
> ~Kyle
> http://kyle.tk/