Comment 21 for bug 1360086

(In reply to Thomas D. from comment #16)
> At second thoughts, I'm not very convinced of the behaviour proposed in this
> bug, although I do sympathise with its purpose of streamlining the tab
> circle for this particular scenario (so I'm a bit in between, no too strong
> feelings about this so far...). So I'm offering some thoughts for wontfix.
>
> Please note that all of these problems will go away with the new recipient
> area design per bug 440377.

Well... I guess that depends (lots of complex descriptions of behavior in there but I couldn't work out exactly what the final result would be)...

I actually like the old/original behavior, and I won't - or will only very rarely - put multiple addresses on one line.

I have no problem with, and agree that Thunderbird should fully support multiple addresses per line like all other email apps do, but there is no reason we can't have both the old behavior and the new.

They are really two totally different issues anyway.

The old behavior used ENTER to add a new address line, and TAB to go to the SUBJECT field.

Old way:

1. Add addresses
2. When done, TAB to subject field

Now with the bug:

1. Add addresses
2. Hit TAB
3. Hit DELETE to delete the blank line (I don't like it, it just looks wrong to me, and if I needed another one, I just clicked at the end of the last one and hit ENTER)
4. Hit TAB again to go to the Subject field

Note: I guess I would be fine with this bug being amended such that hitting TAB adds a blank address line BUT still just jumps straight to the Subject field instead of having to hit TAB again.

Reason: I am constantly entering something in the address field meant for the subject, then encounter an error when sending. It is extremely annoying.

Again - there is no reason that I can see to force us to have to hit TAB twice.

So:

Hit TAB - add blank address line AND jump to subject field
Hit ENTER, go to another address field.