[Coco] Small COCO mailing list problem - Big Mozilla problem.

[Robert Gault]

John E. Malmberg wrote:

> Robert Gault wrote:
> 
>> John E. Malmberg wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> This is where Mozilla resizes internal subwindows incorrectly to make 
>>> room for the attachment window, sometimes in a rapid loop, and when 
>>> looping it is not responsive to steps needed to correct the condition.
>>>
>>> If the length of the name of the mailing list can be reduced to about 
>>> 1/2 it's current size or less, it will prevent the bug from tripping.
>>>
>>> This Mozilla bug has had a few birthdays now, which considering it's 
>>> severity, this is not good, but an indication that it is not going to 
>>> be fixed soon.
>>>
>> Which versions of Mozilla? I'm not having any problems with v1.5.
> 
> 
> It is present in Mozilla 1.5b.  I have not seen any entries in Bugzilla 
> about it being fixed, just more people marking it as a problem for them.
> 
> It shows up when the preview pane is in use.  Mozilla wants to make the 
> it as wide as the longest address or collection of addresses that are 
> not broken up by commas, + the size of the attachment box.
> 
> For my particular configuration, it wants to make the window to be 12 
> inches wide for a coco list posting.
> 
> The instability comes when the it resizes the message pane, it can not 
> conclusively calculate the resulting size, and it will alternate between 
> the two sizes.  Previous versions were much more likely to exhibit the 
> instability than 1.5.  The interim fix has a side effect that you may 
> not be able to access the scroll bar on the right side, making it appear 
> that the message is shorter than it is.
> 
> -John
> wb8tyw at qsl.network
> Personal Opinion Only
> 
> 
Do you still have the problem if you turn off the preview pane and set 
mail to open messages in a new window?