1730505 - Search in Preferences returns random unrelated results

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[php4funs]

Attachment: TB1.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/92.0.4515.131 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to Edit/Preferences
2. In the search box on the top right corner: type "dialog"

Actual results:

See the first screenshot (btw this bug report form is so stupid: I can only attach one file. I guess I'll attach the second screenshot after submitting the report).

A result appear for the setting:
"System Ingegration
[] Always check to see if Thunderbird is the default mail client on startup
(button) Check now
"
with a tooltip that says "dialog" pointing to the button.

However, if I click on Check Now, well, yes, a dialog opens, but that cannot be a good reason for this being a search result for "dialog". In that dialog, the word "dialog" does not appear anywhere, so this is a bogus search result.

Expected results:

If there are any settings where the word "dialog" appears, then they should show up in the results. If there are not, then no result should be found.

Comment 1

[php4funs]

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Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

This may be unexpected, but I don't think it is bogus, because "Always perform" is referring to a dialog.

Comment 3

[Alessandro Castellani [:aleca]]

That result comes from this string: https://searchfox.org/comm-central/rev/8c9c7ff4460d5a50e047ff8abdde4045024e90a9/mail/locales/en-US/messenger/preferences/system-integration.ftl#15
Which has the word "dialog" at the end, and it's part of the search-l10n-ids attribute of that button.

I don't see this as an issue since, even tho it's not immediately related, that section is commonly referenced as "System integration dialog", so it kinda make sense to appear as result.
Anyway, unless we change that string or create a new dedicated string, that result will come up, but I doubt we want to change it.

WONTFIX for me.