User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081201 Firefox/3.1b2 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090208 Shredder/3.0b2pre An empty quick search box shows a grayed out "Subject or From". Sometimes, after using the quick search feature, it shows "Subject or From" as a text, not grayed out. This filters the message list for "Subject or From". Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

i was able to reproduce it. 1. open thunderbird 2. open any other application (e.g. windows calc) 3. switch to thunderbird and place the cursor into the quickserach input field 4. press alt+tab to switch the window 5. switch back to thunderbird 6. the quicksearch input field now has a "not greyed out" content: "Subject or From"

I can't reproduce the problem.

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1pre) Gecko/20090610 Shredder/3.0b3pre (In reply to comment #3) > I can't reproduce the problem. Bernie what version where you using ? Raoul do you still have the issue ? if so do you have themes/extension installed ?

I cannot reproduce the problem in Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 nor 3.0b2, Windows XP.

using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1pre) Gecko/20090611 Shredder/3.0b3pre ID:20090611031805 i have the following extensions installed: * Deutsches Wörterbuch, erweitert für Österreich 1.0.1 * Nightly Tester Tools 2.0.2 * ThreadKey 0.5 * ViewAbout 1.4 i have the following plugins installed: * 2007 Microsoft Office system 12.0.4518.1014 * Foxit Reader Plugin for Mozilla 1.0.0.1 * Google Update 1.2.145.5 * Java(TM) Platform SE 6 U11 6.0.110.3 * Java(TM) Platform SE 6 U13 6.0.130.3 * QuakeLive 0.1.0.220 * Shockwave Flash 10.0.22.87 * Silverlight Plugin 2.0.40115.0 * VLC Multimedia Plug-in 0.9.9.0 * Windows Presentation Foundation 3.5.30729.0 i can still repreoduce it the following way: 1. open shredder 2. open another application (e.g. calc, firefox, whatever) 3. switch to thunderbird, make sure that you see a "greyed-out" "Subject or From" 4. place the cursor into the quickserach input field. i am using ctrl+k for this 5. press alt+tab to switch the window 6. switch back to thunderbird using alt+tab 7. the quicksearch input field now has a "not greyed out" content: "Subject or From" as far as i can see, the error occours as soon as thunderbird looses the focus and the curser is not active anymore. moreover, this issue only occurs when you use "alt+tab". not, when you are clicking in the taskbar! please reopen this bug!

(In reply to comment #6) > using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1pre) > Gecko/20090611 Shredder/3.0b3pre ID:20090611031805 > please reopen this bug! Can you run shredder in safe mode (see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode) and reproduce. If you can't in safe mode than the issue comes from one of the extensions you use - please report the bug to the author of said extension.

i can reproduce this issue in safe-mode.

Wayne any idea ?

This may be fixed by the patch on bug 474701. The quick-search widget code had and continues to have various issues, but I may have fixed this one. It really should be using the toolkit support for this mechanism instead of doing it itself.

bah, asuth midairs me :) I can't speak to this specific issue, and can't say I've seen it. But perhaps more disconcerting in current nightly, I see that the hint text doesn't reappear if you blank out the field. not going to fire up the tryserver build, so I can't confirm asuth about bug 474701. But I agree with the rest of comment 10

I don't know what Shredder is, but other than that I can follow the steps exactly and cannot reproduce the problem.

(In reply to comment #10) > This may be fixed by the patch on bug 474701. The quick-search widget code had > and continues to have various issues, but I may have fixed this one. It really > should be using the toolkit support for this mechanism instead of doing it > itself. when will this be pushed to a nightly build? (In reply to comment #12) > I don't know what Shredder is, but other than that I can follow the steps > exactly and cannot reproduce the problem shredder is the nightly thunderbird build. as a side note, i have a old version of thunderbird installed on the system, which i do not use anymore.

since a build introduced on june 13th/14th, the issue slightly changed. the first thing i noticed is, that the default quicksearch setting is now "Subject" and *not* "Subject or From" as in previous builds. second, pressing "ctrl+k" to access the quicksearch does not lead to the described problem. i still manage to reproduce it though: 1. open shredder 2. open another application (e.g. calc, firefox, whatever) 3. switch to thunderbird, make sure that you see a "greyed-out" "Subject" 4. place the cursor into the quickserach input field by clicking into the quicksearch box. *it is important to click and not use any shortcut like ctrl+k* 5. press alt+tab to switch the window 6. switch back to thunderbird using alt+tab 7. the quicksearch input field now has a "not greyed out" content: "Subject" third, if you remove the quicksearch content, the greyed-out hint on what you're searching in/for does not come back. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1pre) Gecko/20090614 Shredder/3.0b3pre ID:20090614031346 cheers, raoul

this problem still exists on windows vista business with build: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2pre) Gecko/20090724 Shredder/3.0b4pre ID:20090724050314 1. open shredder 2. open another application (e.g. calc, firefox, whatever) 3. switch to shredder, make sure that you see a "greyed-out" "Subject" 4. place the cursor into the quick search input field by clicking into the quick search box *or* use ctrl+k to access the quick search field 5. press alt+tab to switch the window 6. switch back to shredder using alt+tab 7. the quick search input field now has a *not greyed out*, selected content: "Subject or From" note: this does not happen when you use the mouse for switching windows. this only happens when you use "alt+tab".

Comment 15 is WFM on linux (current nightly)

xref regression bug 453368 quicksearch entry area does not always get grey-text description (cue) when blank if the r-range were identified both might have better chance of being resolved

(In reply to comment #17) > if the r-range were identified both might have better chance of being resolved Now that the widget as completely been rewritten I wonder if this issue is still around.

I see a similar problem in Thunberbird 3.0b4. After restart, quick search box shows "Subject or From filter" although "Subject, To or CC filter" is select Steps to reproduce: - Select "Subject, To or CC filter" in quick search drop down. - Restart TB (close and open again). Actual Results: Quick search box shows "Subject or From filter"

See comment above.

Re comment(In reply to comment #19) > I see a similar problem in Thunberbird 3.0b4. It is similar as is has to do with "Subject or From filter" but it has nothing to do whether quick search box is greyed out or not. Should I file a separate bug about it?

Yes, non-persistent filters would be a different problem for a new bug. However, Daniel, can you try latest branch build before filing? I haven't come across this problem so far (no explicit tests done yet). http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-1.9.1/

Thomas, tried with nightly build and it's still there. -> Filed bug #525948 By the way, I think this bug should be renamed to reflect the fact that it is about text in the Quick Search widget being grayed out vs. not grayed out.

Thanks, Daniel. wfm with steps as per comment #2 on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5pre) Gecko/20091102 Shredder/3.0pre