1436732 - quick filter to give higher priority to keystrokes in the search string text box

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 944942

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[steve hayes]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
Build ID: 20180128191252

Steps to reproduce:

Given a large mailbox, when typing in a search string eg T A R G E T
The search will commence as soon as justa few characters are typed eg T A R and then the focus is taken away from the text box for quite some time before the G then the E and then the T are taken into account

this has been the case for years


Actual results:

twiddles thumbs


Expected results:

the moment I type the next character the search should restart for the new string.

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

I can't really reproduce this: I have a local folder with 73000+ messages. While the body search is running, I can keep typing and when I stop, the new search starts.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I saw something like this a few days ago, so it can happen.  Worse if body search is enabled. It also depends in part on your system.  

see bug 944942 comment 13

Comment 3

[steve hayes]

(In reply to Jorg K (GMT+1) from comment #1)
> I can't really reproduce this: I have a local folder with 73000+ messages.
> While the body search is running, I can keep typing and when I stop, the new
> search starts.

windows?

Comment 4

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Windows.