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Why is the 'focus' briefly stopping in the "to:" field every time I create a new message?

George Showman home
George Showman home

Hi All. Long time (25 years) user here, first time poster. Just want to report weird issue/bug, thought to start here on the forum: I'm a fast typer and often sending emails quite quickly. When I click 'reply' to a message, for example, I start typing pretty shortly thereafter. What I'm seeing in the past month or two (sorry, don't have accurate info on when this started) is that the focus briefly jumps to the 'to' field of my message before jumping to the body (where I think it should be from the beginning). The result is that I start typing my message (e.g. "Hello Gloria, Thanks for your email ...."), and get an auto-matched address from my address book (e.g. "He" matches to "Henry Yu") plugged in to the to: field. Then the rest of the text continues in the body field.

Sometimes I notice, sometimes I don't (if there are multiple recipients in particular it's harder to notice the extra address).

It's obviously undesirable to be sending messages to basically randomly selected addresses from my address book. Why is Thunderbird sending the focus to the to: field for a moment, and then jumping to the body? I suggest just putting the focus squarely on the body. Or, lock my keyboard or something until the message is ready to receive input.

Or would anybody know a workaround to this? Other than slowing down, which is of course what I'm doing at the moment.

I'm on Windows, T-bird 128.9.2esr (64-bit).

Thanks!

George

Hi All. Long time (25 years) user here, first time poster. Just want to report weird issue/bug, thought to start here on the forum: I'm a fast typer and often sending emails quite quickly. When I click 'reply' to a message, for example, I start typing pretty shortly thereafter. What I'm seeing in the past month or two (sorry, don't have accurate info on when this started) is that the focus briefly jumps to the 'to' field of my message before jumping to the body (where I think it should be from the beginning). The result is that I start typing my message (e.g. "Hello Gloria, Thanks for your email ...."), and get an auto-matched address from my address book (e.g. "He" matches to "Henry Yu") plugged in to the to: field. Then the rest of the text continues in the body field. Sometimes I notice, sometimes I don't (if there are multiple recipients in particular it's harder to notice the extra address). It's obviously undesirable to be sending messages to basically randomly selected addresses from my address book. Why is Thunderbird sending the focus to the to: field for a moment, and then jumping to the body? I suggest just putting the focus squarely on the body. Or, lock my keyboard or something until the message is ready to receive input. Or would anybody know a workaround to this? Other than slowing down, which is of course what I'm doing at the moment. I'm on Windows, T-bird 128.9.2esr (64-bit). Thanks! George

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Thanks, that nailed it! It was Manage Emails/Nostalgy++ that was causing the problem, it apears. I will repost the issue on that add-on's site.

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George Showman home
George Showman home Question owner

Sorry, correction to the above: I see now that the default behavior is for the focus to be in the to: field, even in a Reply or Reply-All scenario -- but I also see that the focus skips briefly to the Body, and then back to the To: field. So it's still an issue (I still have the very real problem of sending emails to the wrong people).

Not sure what the intended behavior is. I feel like in a Reply or Reply-All scenario, the focus should jump to the body because the To: field is already loaded with addresses. But that is a design decision, vs. what I consider a bit of a bug here at the moment -- the focus jumping from To: to body and then back to To: (but only if you don't type in the body... so, with the timing of my typing, I get the results described in my initial post above).

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Rick (Scooter)
Rick (Scooter)

Are you using any add-ons?

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George Showman home
George Showman home Question owner

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Thanks, that nailed it! It was Manage Emails/Nostalgy++ that was causing the problem, it apears. I will repost the issue on that add-on's site.

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