488235 - Address autofill prioritizes incorrectly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 497722

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[[:jberkus] Josh Berkus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.8) Gecko/2009032608 Firefox/3.0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090223 Thunderbird/3.0b2

If I have several addresses for one person, instead of picking the one most recently used, TB 3.0b picks the one *least* recently used, which is generally the wrong one.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put in 3 different addresses for each of 5 people in your address book.
2. Send mail to each of them using address #3
3. Start typing one of their names.  Address #1 or #2 will come up.
Actual Results:  
An address I have not used in years is the default.

Expected Results:  
The address I used most recently which matches the query string should be the default.  This worked in 2.0.

This happens very consistently for me, but I'll admit I haven't tried a test setup on a clean install.   The address book was imported from 2.0.

Comment 1

[[:jberkus] Josh Berkus]

Sorry, that wasn't clear.  I'm referring to the Mail Composition Window, in the "To" and "CC" fields.

Comment 2

[Craig Markwardt]

I confirm this behavior persists in TB3.0b3.

Comment 3

[Craig Markwardt]

Likely the same as Bug 497722.

Comment 4

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Likely the same as Bug 497722.

Indeed - thanks for the hint. duping to the bug who is new.