742652 - Default sort order should be by date, or be configurable or remembered

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 663859

(Thunderbird :: Search, defect)

Description

[Patrick Mézard]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
Build ID: 20120321033733

Steps to reproduce:

I used "Search in all messages"


Actual results:

Returned results are sorted by relevance, I have to click on the "date" button, always.


Expected results:

Returned results should have been sorted by date, or there should be an easy way to do so. 90% of my "Search All Messages" usage is to retrieve one of the most recent message threads related to a keyword. I am not looking for extremely "relevant" threads from 2003, I want the most recent ones from the last 3 months for instance (think searching for a feature discussion on a development mailing list).

I open this bug today because after years of clicking on "date" I eventually found an extension to do that:

  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/search-results-sort-by-date-no/

with an old discussion on mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird:

  https://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird/browse_thread/thread/455f100a900f3784/121fcd9bcd8a57b5

and realized I would always install it in every future TB installation, which makes me think it probably belongs to some configuration panel in TB itself (or just remember the sort order).

Comment 1

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to Patrick Mézard from comment #0)

> and realized I would always install it in every future TB installation,
> which makes me think it probably belongs to some configuration panel in TB
> itself (or just remember the sort order).

Valid point in my opinion.