Position in document not preserved when switching tabs

[Andy G]

Hi.

Thunderbird 13 on Linux Mint 13 here.

When I open long emails in new tabs, and switch back and forth between
them, Thunderbird does not preserve the horizontal position in each
tab, as Firefox does. This has been the default behavior since the
introduction of tabs?

This is undesirable behavior, as it forces the user to scroll back to
the last remembered position. In cases where the user has many emails
open to specific points in the email for reference this can be a real
headache :-( In my case I do web design and often have multiple emails
open while reading thru specifications, having to reload/rescroll them
is a major hindrance.

Thanks for everyone's time, Thunderbird is the best email client out
there :-)

Andy G
Spearfish, SD, US

[Jonathan Protzenko]

This is a potentially difficult issue, and it's tracked in bugzilla as
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541876 for Seamonkey.

I would be happy to review a patch that does the same for the
Thunderbird side!

Cheers,

jonathan

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[Andy G]

Thank you Jonathan!

Is there *any* workaround for this at all?

I would love to write a patch, but my programming skills are in a
different direction.... ;-)


cheers, A

[Jonathan Protzenko]

No, unfortunately, there is no workaround. The only way to solve this
issue is to have someone write and submit a patch. There's a
Thunderbird papercuts effort going on (see thread on tb-planning),
maybe you could add this to the list?

Cheers,

jonathan

[WBT]

Bug 487386 is also tracking this issue.

-WBT

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Jonathan Protzenko <
jonathan....@gmail.com> wrote:

> No, unfortunately, there is no workaround. The only way to solve this
> issue is to have someone write and submit a patch. There's a Thunderbird
> papercuts effort going on (see thread on tb-planning), maybe you could add
> this to the list?
>
> Cheers,
>
> jonathan
>
>
> On Sun 29 Jul 2012 10:20:38 PM CEST, Andy G wrote:
>
>> Thank you Jonathan!
>>
>> Is there *any* workaround for this at all?
>>
>> I would love to write a patch, but my programming skills are in a
>> different direction.... ;-)
>>
>>
>> cheers, A
>>
>>
>> On 07/29/2012 02:04 PM, Jonathan Protzenko wrote:
>>
>>> This is a potentially difficult issue, and it's tracked in bugzilla

>>> as https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=541876<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541876>for Seamonkey.

>>>
>>> I would be happy to review a patch that does the same for the
>>> Thunderbird side!
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> jonathan
>>>
>>> On Sun 29 Jul 2012 07:11:04 AM CEST, Andy G wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi.
>>>>
>>>> Thunderbird 13 on Linux Mint 13 here.
>>>>
>>>> When I open long emails in new tabs, and switch back and forth
>>>> between them, Thunderbird does not preserve the horizontal position
>>>> in each tab, as Firefox does. This has been the default behavior
>>>> since the introduction of tabs?
>>>>
>>>> This is undesirable behavior, as it forces the user to scroll back
>>>> to the last remembered position. In cases where the user has many
>>>> emails open to specific points in the email for reference this can be
>>>> a real headache :-( In my case I do web design and often have
>>>> multiple emails open while reading thru specifications, having to
>>>> reload/rescroll them is a major hindrance.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for everyone's time, Thunderbird is the best email client out
>>>> there :-)
>>>>
>>>> Andy G
>>>> Spearfish, SD, US
>>>>

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