1116793 - Address lookup aborts on loss of focus

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1012397

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Tim Roberts]

Attachment: TBirdAB.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
Build ID: 20141126041045

Steps to reproduce:

This is a change in behavior from prior versions.  When entering addresses in the recipients area, enter a shortcut and hit "tab" or "enter" quickly.  I am a fast typist.  In prior versions, the lookup continued and the shortcut expanded even while I started to type the next address.  Starting in version 31, the lookup aborts, and the unexpanded shortcut is left as is.


Actual results:

In version 31, the shortcut remains unexpanded, as typed.  In the attached image, I typed "johnp<enter>johnp<pause>".  You can see that the first one remained unexpanded.  The second one succeeded.

Now, I see three possibilities.

1. This has always been the intent, but the address lookup now takes much longer.  This seems unlikely.

2. The address book lookup has been changed from a synchronous to an asynchronous process, and this behavior is an accidental side effect.  If so, it is a bug.

3. This change was intentional, as an attempt to prevent accidental misfires in the lookup.  If so, although I disagree with it, I will get used to it and this bug should be closed as "will not fix".


Expected results:

In prior versions, the shortcut lookup process continued, and the name expanded.