Closed Bug 1140218 Opened 10 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Thunderbird address autocomplete serving incorrect suggestion when a space is used

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Untriaged
Version:
31 Branch
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1091675

People

(Reporter: quentin-bugs, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0 Build ID: 20150224134617 Steps to reproduce: Open new email intending to email Steven Surname, Write "steven s" without quotes into to: bar Note. This is an issue on a Windows 7 Client with Thunderbird 31.5.0. We downgraded to 31.4.0 (used same profile) and the issue still occurs. The whole office where this issue was reported from has expecianced this to some degree, with different contacts. I use 31.5.0 on my Ubuntu 14.04 Client (with similar contacts) and can reproduce also. Actual results: A more frequent contact "Steven Xylophone - ABC Corporations" is suggested. Note. Fake names are being used, elements worth noting are the full display name of thios contact contains an S later in it's name (corporationS) but if the name is changed in my addressbook the issue still occurs. Xylophone is used because in our real situation the incorrectly suggested address has a surname that is alphabetically after the desired contact's surname. Expected results: The " S" (space S) should have meant "Steven Surname" would have been suggested as the top choice.
The cause is that it's searching "Steven" or "S"
Does anyone know if that's a recent change? Or if it can be configured to not treat space as a seperator?
It was made that way for tb31 in bug 558931. There's no configuration option, but bug 1091675 (which will be in tb38) implemented quoting support so if you put the string in quotes it searches for exact match.
Thanks Magnus! Would the patch from 1091675 be in the current nightly build or would I have to re-compile with it included?
It's in the nightlies.
Many thanks.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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