1064295 - E-mail address autocompletion is now dumb and slow

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 970456

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Michael Schaap]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0
Build ID: 20140825202822

Steps to reproduce:

I have two e-mail addresses in my address book (among many others):
 [e-mail]
 [e-mail]
When I want to send e-mail to the first one, I used to type just
  eb<Tab>
and it would complete to the correct address.


Actual results:

As of version 31.1 (and probably 31.0 which I couldn't use because of IMAP issues):

If I press <Tab> too fast, the address remains “eb” and doesn't work.  (In earlier Thunderbird versions the completion was fast enough, and my muscle memory doesn't let me wait longer...)

If I do wait ~ 0.3 seconds for the completion to finish, the selected e-mail address is “[e-mail]”, which is – obviously – not the address I want.


Expected results:

eb<Tab> should immediately complete to “[e-mail]”, as it did before version 31.

Comment 1

[Michael Schaap]

I realize that the changed completion logic is supposed to be a feature, but it is far, far worse, and slower, than it used to be.  I'd much rather have the (supposedly buggy) old logic back, and am almost frustrated enough to reinstall 24.x.

The above addresses are just an example; this happens all the time with different addresses.
Completion should *never* prefer a mid-word match over a word start match.

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Yes Michael, we're addressing both of these issues in Bug 1012397 and Bug 970456 respectively.