Bug 266436 - mail/thunderbird Ctrl + Page Down (next tab) and Ctrl + Page Up (previous tab) are sometimes no longer effective
Summary: mail/thunderbird Ctrl + Page Down (next tab) and Ctrl + Page Up (previous tab...
Status: Open
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-gecko (Nobody)
URL: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/...
Keywords: needs-qa
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2022-09-16 06:48 UTC by Graham Perrin
Modified: 2023-04-23 12:09 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-09-16 06:48:42 UTC
> Next Tab	Ctrl + Tab
>               Ctrl + Page Down
> Previous Tab	Ctrl + Shift + Tab
>               Ctrl + Page Up

The two shortcuts that use Tab seem to be OK, at a glance, although I'm not accustomed to them. 

The shortcuts with which I'm familiar sometimes no longer work. As far as I can tell, at the time of writing: 

* they're effective only if preceded by a click on a tab

* if an e-mail is selected, then it's as if the Control tab is ignored 
  (there's paging down and up within the list, without altering the selection). 

This smells like an upstream bug, although I have not yet found one (I imagine many people reporting it, if not FreeBSD-specific). 

I'm not certain when symptoms began, but it's recent, I assume that they began with the major upgrade (91.13.0_1 -> 102.2.2): 

% grep thunderbird /var/log/messages
Sep 12 21:34:43 mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd kernel: pid 42564 (thunderbird), jid 0, uid 1002: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
Sep 15 09:11:48 mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd pkg[55889]: thunderbird upgraded: 91.13.0_1 -> 102.2.2 
% zgrep thunderbird /var/log/messages.0.bz2 
% zgrep thunderbird /var/log/messages.1.bz2
Sep  4 01:03:27 mowa219-gjp4-8570p-freebsd kernel: pid 76406 (thunderbird), jid 0, uid 1002: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
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Comment 1 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-09-16 06:49:29 UTC
(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #0)

> as if the Control tab is ignored 

Sorry, I meant: 

> as if the Control key is ignored
Comment 2 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-09-16 06:53:19 UTC
(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #0)

Things becoming clearer, since I expressed this in writing. As far as I can tell: 

* the shortcuts are effective if preceded by a click on a tab 

* the shortcuts are effective if preceded by a click within an e-mail 

* shortcuts are _not_ effective if preceded by a click on the 
  listing for an e-mail.
Comment 3 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2022-09-17 08:04:12 UTC
(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #2)

> * shortcuts are _not_ effective if preceded by a click on the 
>   listing for an e-mail.

A simple workaround, whilst any listing is in focus: 

* precede the required shortcut with (change of focus) 
  use of the Tab key. 

I'll aim to make this reproducible in something other than FreeBSD. I do imagine an upstream bug.