When I select a group of emails, TB often opens them all at once.
I wish to delete a large group of emails (~20). They are usually spam or worse. I certainly do not wish to open them due to security concerns. So I mark one at the end of the group and then hold the shift key down and try to mark the email at the other end of the group---so as to delete them all. But instead, when I click on the top email, the entire group of emails are opened at once. Then I have to close each one separately, and try again. It usually works the second time. Help? Thanks,
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I've just done some testing to find out how you managed to open all the selected emails.
I've managed to replicate this but only when I do the following.
- Close Message Pane so nothing selected is opened.
- Left click on one email
- Hold down 'Shift'
- Double click on last email in batch.
Result: all selected emails open in new tabs.
So, it would seem you are double clicking on the last selected email. Perhaps you feel you are doing a single click, but you are not doing it all the time, hence why sometimes it works and other times it does not. Maybe the click is held down a bit longer and triggers that signal.
Your keyboard and mouse send specific signals to your computer, the computer then acts accordingly depending upon the received signal. Computer perceives a double click and in Thunderbird that means open the selected emails.
Suggest you check the double click speed of your mouse.
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I've just done some testing to find out how you managed to open all the selected emails.
I've managed to replicate this but only when I do the following.
- Close Message Pane so nothing selected is opened.
- Left click on one email
- Hold down 'Shift'
- Double click on last email in batch.
Result: all selected emails open in new tabs.
So, it would seem you are double clicking on the last selected email. Perhaps you feel you are doing a single click, but you are not doing it all the time, hence why sometimes it works and other times it does not. Maybe the click is held down a bit longer and triggers that signal.
Your keyboard and mouse send specific signals to your computer, the computer then acts accordingly depending upon the received signal. Computer perceives a double click and in Thunderbird that means open the selected emails.
Suggest you check the double click speed of your mouse.
You have solved the problem! My mouse had a dirty switch or else it vibrated and sent a double-click sometimes. Thanks very much.