The Customize Message Views modal dialog (View dropdown > Customize...) reappears every time I try to dismiss it by clicking the OK button, clicking the window close box, or pressing the escape key. And since the dialog is modal, it prevents me from accessing the main Thunderbird window. As a result, once I open that dialog I am no longer able to use Thunderbird, and I can't even quit it from within the application. I'm seeing this behavior in the latest nightly (20061201) of 2.0 beta 1 for Linux. I haven't tested other platforms or previous nightlies.

Workaround: select an item from the list, then press OK. The dialog will go away and won't reappear. But the View will change to the item you selected (a separate bug?).

In TB 3a, using the work around as indicated results in TB closing.

I see this too. There aren't any erorrs in the JS console either.

I think this might be related to 349991

If you don't select a view in the customie view list dialog before you hit ok, then the call back in msgViewPickerOverlay.js seems to get unhappy, and we re-open the customize view dialog.

I see this in Windows 2000.

> If you don't select a view in the customie view list dialog before you hit ok, > then the call back in msgViewPickerOverlay.js seems to get unhappy, and we > re-open the customize view dialog. Woo, that reopening is quite a coincidence. ;-) The list returns -1 as the selected index and so we select the first index *before* the custom views which incidentally happens to be Customize... again.

Try to change view when returning the customize dialog only if one was selected and the dialog wasn't cancelled. (Patch is against 1.8 branch, but should apply to trunk also.)

If bug 362990 drops the view selection change, this bug here is irrelevant. Marking dependency.

Comment on attachment 247719 [details] [diff] [review] skip some selection tries I happened to notice an unrelated bug while testing this: when selecting Customise or Save for the first time then the picker label is blanked.

> I happened to notice an unrelated bug while testing this: when selecting > Customise or Save for the first time then the picker label is blanked. I'll have a look at that while hunting down bug 362656 comment 0 point 3.

> I happened to notice an unrelated bug while testing this: when selecting > Customise or Save for the first time then the picker label is blanked. That's another fallout of the early return in ViewChange, and I think we're going to kill it in bug 362741 (unless yet unthought cruel monsters turn up from under the bed).

Comment on attachment 247719 [details] [diff] [review] skip some selection tries Asking for approval to get the bug fixed on branch and avoid SM shipping with it.

Sounds good to me, a=me for SeaMonkey 1.1 (no appropriate flag here)

Fixed by bug 362990.

verified fixed1.8.1.3 using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070326 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 ID:2007032620, tested with the steps to reproduce from this bug.