625678 - Missing input search fields from the search window

Status: REOPENED

(Thunderbird :: Search, defect)

Description

[Istvan Holbok]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; hu; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; hu; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.7

Local maps -> Right click -> Search : there are no input fields for the search string.
Broken search functionality.
Look at the screenshot at http://holbok.com/errors/thunderbird_error.png

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Local Maps in Thunderbird 
2. Right click on a local map
3. Choose Search for the open search window
Actual Results:  
n./a.

Expected Results:  
n./a.

n./a.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

The top half of the search window has been shunk.

If you hover over the bar that goes across the window the cursor should change shape, click and hold and drag that bar down, the options enter search details should then appear.

Comment 2

[Istvan Holbok]

Thanks, it was a really crazy things. I did not find the input fields anywhere.

Comment 3

[ISHIKAWA, Chiaki]

(I thought I have filed a bugzilla, but I could not find it, and I noticed a similar
entry, and so am following up on this old entry.)

I am not sure if what I see is the same thing as the original reporter reported, but 
it may be different. In that case, I need to file a new bug.
At least, I can say, that the behavior I see is different from the previous behavior I saw in the last 
10- years.

I am using 24.2.0 (which has been updated automatically. So the previous version before this may also
have the same bug/feature.)

What I did:
Edit -> Search -> Search for Messages.

Now usually, the search window starts with an empty row to input search condition.

However, a few times in the last month, the window came up with empty.

I am attaching a screen dump here. (The URL mentioned in the original post, 
 http://holbok.com/errors/thunderbird_error.png is no longer accessible, and that is why
I could not deduce this is the same symptom I am seeing.)

If my memory serves, the symptom had never been observed before this happened last month and today.


TIA

Comment 4

[ISHIKAWA, Chiaki]

Attachment: Screen to show the empty screen.

This is the screen dump when the symptom manifested today.

Somehow, the row into which I am supposed to type the search condition was missing.
I was at a loss about what do do next.

Comment 5

[ISHIKAWA, Chiaki]

Attachment: A row appears after I hit [RESET], but something is wrong here.

Luckily, after I hit "[RESET]" button, a row appears as it should.
But this has never happened before the current release.
So I was so taken aback.

I am afraid that the current release seems to have a
bug related to optimized drawing (or delayed painting or something.)

TIA

Comment 6

[ISHIKAWA, Chiaki]

I forgot to mention that I am using TB under linux (32bit Debian GNU/Linux).

TIA

Comment 7

[ISHIKAWA, Chiaki]

(In reply to ISHIKAWA, Chiaki from comment #6)
> I forgot to mention that I am using TB under linux (32bit Debian GNU/Linux).
> 
> TIA

Today, I encountered this bug with TB 24.4.0 under Windows7 64-bit.
So the problem is wide-spread.

Comment 8

[ISHIKAWA, Chiaki]

Attachment: After a couple of virtual folder creations/deletion AND trying to seach, pull down in the search box becomes empty!

I could reproduce the missing row (which is again shown with RESET)
but then I noticed under some circumstances, the pull down menu 
shows no string :

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670445#c4

The detailed procedure is mentioned in the bug comment above.
(I was checking an issue of incorrect search target when
a virtual folder is created. The top-most directory seems to
be missing after a few creation/deletion.)

Note that the pull down menus somehow got blank/empty.

TIA

Comment 9

[ISHIKAWA, Chiaki]

Can this be the result of similar cause as in
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1583415
HTML Mail Question dialog pops up in wrong size, and misses the SEND/CANCEL button (are they hidden?)

In this case, the size is totally bogus?