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Cursor jumping back to Subject line while writing e-message

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Hikermann
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1. 115.3.1 (32-bit) 2. Keyboarding an e-mail message; 3. Continually, and for no apparent reason (!), the cursor jumps back up into the Subject box; 4. Which, of course, does not catch my attention immediately and time is wasted having to remedy that "Thunderbird Treat"; 5. Seems to be one of the What-The-_________s?! that has come with the New, Improved Thunderbird version of not too long ago; 6. NO THANK YOU!

7. Why? 8. How to "back-improve" Thunderbird so it just does what it was originally designed to do: When Subject line information is completed and one moves to the composition box, the cursor stays in the composition box?

Thank you.

1. 115.3.1 (32-bit) 2. Keyboarding an e-mail message; 3. Continually, and for no apparent reason (!), the cursor jumps back up into the Subject box; 4. Which, of course, does not catch my attention immediately and time is wasted having to remedy that "Thunderbird Treat"; 5. Seems to be one of the What-The-_________s?! that has come with the New, Improved Thunderbird version of not too long ago; 6. NO THANK YOU! 7. Why? 8. How to "back-improve" Thunderbird so it just does what it was originally designed to do: When Subject line information is completed and one moves to the composition box, the cursor stays in the composition box? Thank you.

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sfhowes
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Does the same thing happen in safe/troubleshoot mode (hold Shift when launching TB)?

Hikermann
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Thank you for the response.

In Safe Mode, thus far with a rather small composition sample, it has not gotten all jumpy with me. Will live with it for a while.

Does this mean I need to always open in Safe Mode now?

Again, thanks. Nels

sfhowes
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Launch in normal mode, disable hardware acceleration in Settings/General (bottom of tab), restart TB in normal mode and see how it works. Hardware acceleration is disabled in safe mode.

Hikermann
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Again, many thanks. Will do that.

Just noticed, however, as I have been composing, that at least one of the ways the cursor jump is triggered is that, even though I have my Save Draft set for about 5 or 10 seconds, I habitually (regularly) keystroke ALT-F-Save -- and that seems to cause the issue. (Doing that keystroke is a hold-over from my word processing composing.)

So, will go ahead with your suggestion (above).

Again, appreciated.