Thunderbird crashes when using tab key in subject field

[Jen Alexander]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

Within the last hour, three (possibly four) times I have experienced the same problem.

What happened?

Using the tab key to tab through the header fields while entering information, I got to the subject field. After typing the subject of "meeting time change" and then on other attempts "meeting time", and while attempting to use the tab key to go to the body field of the message, Thunderbird completely crashed. I had to relaunch the application, and log in each time.

What I expected to happen was for the curser to move from the subject field to the main message body field.

I use the tab key extremely frequently to move between fields, so this isn't an unusual operation, and yet after many months of use the trouble just started and keeps recurring.

I'm running version 2.0.0.23 (20090817) on Ubuntu. I recognize I should be running a newer version, but can't find directions on how to install it, and don't want to break anything.

I'm using Ubuntu version 9.10.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 8 17:45:48 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: mozilla-thunderbird (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.57-generic
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

You do not appear to have it installed via Ubuntu's repositories, do you?
Can you provide the output of "dpkg -l | grep thunderbird" from a terminal, please?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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