1113478 - email address autocomplete now matches letter strings in the middle of address book entries

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 970456

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[D Holzmman]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

For instance, you type "da" ... and TB now suggests "adam" (and the email address for adam) in addition to "david" (and the email address for david) -- but you were probably just looking for "david".  "adam" would not have appeared as a choice in prior versions of TB. (Am now using version 31.3.0)


Actual results:

when addressing an email, autocomplete now suggests matches to what you've typed that include matches in the middle of address book field entries.  (instead of just matches at the beginning of entries)

this is a significant change from prior versions of TB.  and *** could result in people accidentally sending emails to unintended recipients *** because they accustomed to simply hitting enter after typing two letters that have consistently returned a different match than they get now.


Expected results:

what should happen is that you get matches only at the beginning of entries.  e.g., when you type "da" you get entries/addresses for "david" but not for "adam"

Comment 1

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

No need to set the security flag which limits the number of people who can see this bug. Better to have more eyes on it.