Monday, December 21, 2009

Thunderbird 3: awful search

The new search feature in Thunderbird 3 is horrible! It is hard to get an overview on this new layout, which can only contain a very limited amount of results. The idea of caching messages in a local database for faster search is good, but quite late... I would have prefered the classic search result view (which is what you expect from a mail program), but with the new cached backend.

Update: just noticed that it is possible to click the little magnifying glass in the input field and choose "Subject, From, or Recipient filter" to get the old style search back!

Update again: looks like the the horrible search has been dropped in version 3.1 :-)

8 comments:

  1. You just saved my day! That new search really is awful. Thank god it's possible to revert that.

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  2. Thanks so much for that little update of yours. The new search was pissing me off so bad and I never noticed that option!

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  3. You also saved my day: I looked over all options, but could'nt find it... Reverted to old display/search using your 'update', and efficiency is back!

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  4. Thank you.
    Matea, Bulgaria

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  5. Thank you! Just like the other readers, I couldn't get rid of this new search system.

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  6. Thanks, I hated the new search function

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