179953 - "Advanced" search button missing from quick search bar

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[jonathan.courtney]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021112
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021112

Recent builds (that have the "view:" dropdown menu on the mail window) have
omitted the "advanced" search button that used to be to the right of the "clear"
button.  If this is unintentional, consider this a bug.  If it is intentional,
please consider this an RFE... the "advanced" search button is extremely convenient.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Karl Palsson]

I still have this button on:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021113

(This is the advanced button beside the clear button on the quick search bar?)

Comment 2

[jonathan.courtney]

Yes, it is the "advanced" button that should be next to "clear" on the quick
search bar.

I just grabbed
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021114

And it is still not there for me.  Uh oh.


The button disappeared on me a few weeks back, when I moved from 1.2b to a
nightly (I forget which one) to try to solve some other problems that I was
seeing.  The other problems persisted, so I moved to the 20021112 build -- but
before I did, I wiped out everything on my drive related to Moz and created a
fresh profile.  The button didn't return even then.

Comment 3

[Greg K.]

Confirmed using FizzillaCFM/2002110808 on 10.1.5. Is this Mac-only, then?

Comment 4

[laurel]

In the current trunk builds, the Advanced button is out.  New design is being
drawn for that toolbar to accomodate a new view implementation (bug 176850),
Advanced search button not included in some intitial documentation. Specs are in
progress and not yet available on Mozilla UI page.  

Will leave this open as enhancement request until further comments by
UI/development and/or design is finalized.

Comment 5

[jglick]

"Advanced" was removed on purpose.
1. To make room for new "View" feature.
2. Feedback from mozilla folks that 'Advanced Search' isn't accessed as 
frequently because quick search is so effective.
3. Advanced search is already available from the Tools menu.
4. With new View feature, QS toolbar is even more effective/powerful, hence even 
less frequent use of Advanced Search dialog necessary.

Comment 6

[jonathan.courtney]

That's fine, but QS doesn't work on the To/cc fields, which is a very common
search operation if you receive mail via multiple mailing lists (like me).  For
this, the "Advanced" search button was very convenient since it cut a step out
of the process.

From my perspective, the optimal solution would be if QS operated on the To/cc
fields as well as on Subject and Sender.  That would be fewer steps still.  I
guess I can file that as a separate RFE.

Comment 7

[jonathan.courtney]

I have added an RFE for To/cc to be included in QuickSearch (bug 182073).

Comment 8

[laurel]

*** Bug 186454 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Sander]

Since buttons on the mailnews toolbar can now be enabled/disabled, isn't it an
option to create a button for the advanced search that's off by default?
(If someone were to provide a patch for such a button, would it be refused
because of this wontfix resolution?)

Comment 10

[u69748]

From the mozillaZine post:
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=2967

To get the advanced button back, add this to your userchrome.css:

#advancedButton { visibility: visible !important; }

If you also want to get rid of message views, to go back to the way 
the search bar was before, add this too:

#viewPickerBox { visibility: collapse; } 

Comment 11

[Filipe R. Fonseca]

I saw a japanese page [http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~level0/mozilla/tips.html]
with this for 1.4:

#advancedButton { display: block !important; }

I works form me.

I understand why it was removed; but why there is no chance to put a check box
in the prefs? It would be very useful to some, I believe.

Comment 12

[jonathan.courtney]

I think that having support for this in the prefs is a worthy suggestion,
especially since the chrome incantation to bring back the "Advanced" button
appears to be subject to change from release to release.

Perhaps this should be filed as a separate RFE for tracking?

Comment 13

[[e-mail]]

Actually it should be display: -moz-box !important;