1122348 - Thunderbird has an Auto-Fill Delay on Address Entries

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1012397

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Jason W Theis]

Attachment: Screenshot of Compose Window with failed auto-fill

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

Steps to reproduce:

For the last few weeks, perhaps since release of 31.0 (version is currently 31.4.0 and just updated today), recipient auto-fill in the message composition window does not behave as previously.  There is a distinct delay in the auto-fill feature.

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As an aside, I have used Thunderbird since it was Netscape Communicator and have not had this be an issue.  In order to get auto-fill to respond, I must wait a second after I stop typing to allow the auto-fill list to produce, then I can tab through (or choose from the list) to the next field.  This may be related to bug report #1118086, but I can't readily decipher the techno-speak.


Actual results:

When typing a recipient name, such as "Jason," and following this with an immediate TAB to the next field, the program leaves the name "Jason" in the recipient field without auto-completing with the best match.


Expected results:

The program *should have* auto-filled the name with the best match as I tabbed into the next (or even several further down) fields.  For example, "Jason" becomes "Jason LastName <[e-mail]>."