User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050902 Firefox/1.0+ Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050903 Thunderbird/1.4 ID:2005090302 When composing a new message, the menus Insert, Format, the button Spell and the pulldown menus for the font characteristics are not activated (remain grayed out) after the message pane gets focus and text is typed Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Compose Window (click Write) 2. Focus message pane (click in pane) 3. Type some text Actual Results: The menus Insert and Format stay greyed out Expected Results: The menus should have been activated Regressed between the 26-08 and the 27-08 nightly branch builds Works in: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050826 Thunderbird/1.0+ ID:2005082604 Fails in: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050827 Thunderbird/1.0+ ID:2005082704 Workaround: Focus another window and then return focus to the compose window

I see the same thing with trunk build 1.6a1-0830, Win2K. > Workaround: > Focus another window and then return focus to the compose window Hm, I don't see that part. But: the widgets enable correctly if you tab into the editor pane, rather than clicking.

xref bug 306076, altho that doesn't look to be the *same* problem.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 306076 ***