645984 - quick search should start scanning folder starting from most recent items

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 474730

(Thunderbird :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Gaetano Giunta]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9

When running a quick search in a folder with many items, older items are found first, newest items are found last.
But I am interested 99% of the time in most recent mails.
This means that I have to wait for the quick search to finish before I can start looking at results.
If otoh the search was done starting from recent items down to older ones, I could start using the search results while the search is still underway, and not wait 2 to 5 seconds every time

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. do a quick search in a folder with many mails
2. wait until the search finishes
3. start looking at search results ordered by date descending (newest items on top)
Actual Results:  
Need to wait for search to be over before finding the most recent items matching search