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Prior to the fix for Bug 243258 the "prefer display name" preference for each contact was not being respected. Subsequently, that issue has been fixed.

Unfortunately, it seems like the default for Collected Addresses(added when you send an email) is to leave that box unchecked. I tested that this DOES happen with newly added addresses as of Daily 4/28. Therefore I have a "Collected Addresses" addressbook with 1185 contacts that do not prefer display name.

Not sure on solutions here. At the very least, "prefer display name" should be the default for collected addresses, as it was in practice before the bug was fixed. Fixing all the old contacts is also an issue though.

TBH, I'm skeptical that this pref even makes sense per-contact.  If it does, though, there needs to be some way to set a whole address book to one value, and we should probably do that for the entire user base. 

Otherwise this will appear to be a default change even when none was intended.

Prior to the fix for Bug 243258 the "prefer display name" preference for each contact was not being respected. Subsequently, that issue has been fixed.

Unfortunately, it seems like the default for Collected Addresses(added when you send an email) is to leave that box unchecked. I tested that this DOES happen with newly added addresses as of Daily 4/28. Therefore I have a "Collected Addresses" addressbook with 1185 contacts that do not prefer display name.

Not sure on solutions here. At the very least, "prefer display name" should be the default for collected addresses, as it was in practice before the bug was fixed. Fixing all the old contacts is also an issue though.

TBH, I'm skeptical that this pref even makes sense per-contact.  If it does, there needs to be some way to set a whole address book to one value, and we should probably do that for the entire user base. 

Otherwise this will appear to be a default change even when none was intended.