This is a followup bug 564328 comment 8, and bug 564328 comment 16 (both by rsx11m) STR 1 set mailnews.remember_selected_message = false (or wait for one of the rare occasions where you have no msg selected and thus preview is empty) 2 set focus on folder list's inbox (so that we start from the same place, maybe not needed) 3 ensure msg preview is empty (important!) 4 press Ctrl+F -> quick filter bar shows (ok) 5 press ESC -> quick filter bar goes (ok) 6 press Ctrl+F Actual nothing (wrong: Ctrl+F appears broken) Note that after step 5, we don't have any visual focus (feels wrong), which may contribute to this bug Expected Ctrl+F should always do something (in most situations, show the quickfilter bar, otherwise - due to ctrl+f magic - show "find in msg" bar)

Reported against Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1 (RC1?)

Interestingly, the focus remains in the quick-filter bar even if it has been closed. Without a message selected, use ESC to close the bar; then, try to use a navigational shortcut, e.g., [N] to go to an unread message; the result is that qfb appears to search for "n" now without being opened.

About to file a bug on this focus problem mentioned in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571280#c2 Deserves a separate bug?

Thomas, this will be no longer an issue once bug 564328 untangles cmd_find as the underlying issue of all those problems. You can either keep it open to verify WFM once the other bug is fixed, or simply mark it as a duplicate.

This is no longer applicable in today's 8.0a1 with steps to reproduce. Quick-filter bar is now Ctrl+Shift+K, and I have no problems with the following: 1. Make sure no message is visible in the message pane 2. Open QFB with Ctrl+Shift+K shortcut 3. Close it with ESC 4. Using Ctrl+Shift+K again opens QFB And, both Ctrl+Shift+K and Ctrl+F work as desired when a message is selected. -> FIXED by bug 564328.