Cannot access "To:" field after first email

[Andrew Pam]

After upgrading to Thunderbird 31, the To: field becomes inaccessible after composing one email. This means that subsequent emails cannot be addressed or sent. "Reply" also no longer works. It is therefore necessary to restart Thunderbird after every single email written.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Verena Alishahi (v-alishahi)]

This bug affects me too. It's not only the To: field, which becomes inaccessible after composing one email, it's the text-field as well. It not only seems to be not a text field, I really cannot write into it.
I use thunderbird 31.1.1 on ubuntu 14.04.
With this bug thunderbird is unusable.

I recognized the same behavior in text-fields in firefox 32.0

Wich further information do you need?

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Andrew (and anyone else affected),

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago and there have been many changes in Ubuntu and Thunderbird since that time. Your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates.

It would help us a lot if you could test on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once in a terminal:

apport-collect 1348817

and add any additional information that you think relevant. Alternatively, please confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can the report. If we do not hear from you this bug report will automatically expire in approximately 60 days time.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu better.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Andrew Pam (xanni)]

This is no longer a problem in current versions of Thunderbird.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Thanks Andrew. Will close by marking "Invalid" as cause of issue was never confirmed.