Mozilla 1.1beta Build (2002072104) Windows 98 When using the mail client in three-pane mode the focus is not on message text unless you specifically click in the message detail pane. The scroll bar for the message pane does not move the focus to the message. Only clicking on the text will bring the focus to the message detail. The message and the scroll bar should be linked. Steps to reproduce this: 1. Open mail/news in three-pane mode. 2. Select a message thread. At this point the focus appears to be in the message thread pane. If you press the “down arrow” key the next message is selected and displayed in the message detail pane. (The fix related to bug 33507 is an exception to this because pressing the space bar does not scroll the thread pane but instead the message detail scrolls.) 3. Move the message scroll bar and the message scrolls but the focus does not move to the message detail it stays with the thread pane. If you try to scroll through the message using the "down arrow" key the message does not scroll. Instead the next item in the thread pane is selected and the text in the message pane changes. 4. If you specifically click on the “message text” focus will then move to the message detail pane and the "down arrow" key will scroll through the text. I can imagine someone using the arrow key to scan through their messages. So, I don’t think the focus should be changed from the thread pane simply because a message is visible. However if someone uses the scroll bar to scroll through the message it seems reasonable that the focus should shift to message at that time. Then the arrow keys would scroll through the message rather than the thread pane. Clicking on a new message in the thread pane would again return focus to the thread pane. It seems a little strange that the space bar would work on one pane while the arrow keys are moving things in a different one, but that is a different bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9086 ***

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