Closed Bug 1258018 Opened 8 years ago Closed 8 years ago

address book will NOT search for CONN without finding every CONNIE

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Message Compose Window
Version:
38 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: vegas68, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
Build ID: 20160303134406

Steps to reproduce:

type in the t-bird search box: conn



Actual results:

Tbird automatically finds (in addtion to other stuff) EVERY Connie in my address book...



Expected results:

USED to be able to just add a space after conn but that no longer works in newer versions.
Giving partial matches is the expected outcome and works like this by design, right, Magnus?
Flags: needinfo?(mkmelin+mozilla)
Whiteboard: BAD design... needs fixing...
Component: Search → Message Compose Window
Yes, of course. Otherwise people would have a real hard time finding anything.
If you need the space you can put the whole thing in quotes. "conn "
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Flags: needinfo?(mkmelin+mozilla)
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Whiteboard: BAD design... needs fixing...
THANK YOU. THANK YOU THANK YOU....  Quotation marks sure eliminated every Connie and Conner in 
my 8,843-contacts address book... no joke - NO exaggeration; 8,843 contacts!!!!  
I've been struggling with this ever since it was "fixed" and I just said grrrrrr back then.
THANKS again!!!
Glad it worked out for you!
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