I've linked up some anecdotal evidence from a [user complaint in support](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1388577#answer-1532476) in the user story of this bug, and added some more detail to comment 0 why this can be useful. I've talked about this with Alex today and he explained some of the implementation-level background. He also hinted that we might try restoring the menu entries (here: Edit), but preferably as a simple direct link to the contact in the main address book as Magnus said. Imho, at least having that direct `Edit` link would add significant convenience because firing up the main AB and searching again for a contact which is already right in front of the user's eyes in the sidebar feels really clumsy. (As a sidenote, your Android phone dialer will also allow you to view/edit a contact directly even though it's primarily for dialing...). Having two or three intelligent entry points (not 100) can make for awesome ux-efficiency, which is a great reason for choosing Thunderbird... (In reply to Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] from comment #5) > If we want it, it might be better to have the menu item send the user to the address book for editing.
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I've linked up some anecdotal evidence from a [user complaint in support](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1388577#answer-1532476) in the user story of this bug, and added some more detail to comment 0 why this can be useful. I've talked about this with Alex today and he explained some of the implementation-level background. He also hinted that **we might try restoring the menu entries (here: Edit), but preferably as a simple direct link to the contact in the main address book** as Magnus said. Imho, at least having that direct `Edit` link would add significant convenience because firing up the main AB and searching again for a contact which is already right in front of the user's eyes in the sidebar feels really clumsy. (As a sidenote, your Android phone dialer will also allow you to view/edit a contact directly even though it's primarily for dialing...). Having two or three intelligent entry points (not 100) can make for awesome ux-efficiency, which is a great reason for choosing Thunderbird... (In reply to Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] from comment #5) > If we want it, it might be better to have the menu item send the user to the address book for editing.