1069826 - Recipient autocomplete: "wrong" matches, i.e. unexpected prioritization/order of results

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 970456

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect, P1)

Description

[slight]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0
Build ID: 20140917194002

Steps to reproduce:

typing a letter, e.g. "L" for "Louis Miller" ...


Actual results:

... the autocomplete shows the result "Udo Miller" 
 (typing "Lo", the autocomplete shows "Max Oister")


Expected results:

the address "Louis Miller" = l.miller@ ... should match as first result

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

You didn't write the address, so I don't know why Max Oister match in the first place, but I assume "lo" is somewhere in the address then.

But for the rest, this is dupe of bug 970456.

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

slight, thanks for reporting. We have already fixed this issue of unexpected result sorting, and we are trying to release the fix asap (currently fixed only on non-release versions of TB). It's not easy to get the sorting right, sorry 4 the inconvenience!

In the meantime, try using other cool search strategies...
e.g. typing "lo mi" might suffice to return "Louis Miller" as a unique match...
Also try setting value in Nickname field of contact properties, e.g. "lm#". Then, just typing "lm#" should also reliably return that contact only.
Pls report back if these tips are helpful :)