jobisoft
Email address autocomplete suggestions have inconsistent ordering
Your environment
TbSync version: Latest Beta as of 15th Feb 2020 Thunderbird version: 68.4.1 (64-bit) (On Linux, Ubuntu)
[Tick ] Yes, I have installed the latest available (beta) version from https://github.com/jobisoft/TbSync/releases and my issue is not yet fixed, I can still reproduce it.
Expected behavior
If I have multiple people in my address book called Dave, it should show these in some well-defined order. I would prefer if it showed the entries which had been used most recently at the top, because this would normally a useful suggestion. At the very least, given the same words typed into the 'To:' field, it should not randomise the list each time.
Actual behavior
Thunderbird offers a set of matching names from the address book. However, it seems to offer these in an inconsistent order; I don't get the same ordering each time I start a new email. This is awkward when the word(s) which I type match many entries from the address book.
I think that this is a regression; this used to work properly in the past, but perhaps not for the last few months. (i.e. it changed sometime in the autumn of 2019)
Steps to reproduce
I type a name in the 'To' line within the message compose window. Thunderbird offers a set of matching names from the address book.
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John, I initially raised this as a general Thunderbird bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1613243 However, it seems that this only happens when using a TbSync address book. Therefore, I have raised this here. I apologise if this is not the correct location; if so I'll move it or raise it again elsewhere.
Are they all from the same tbsync address book, or do you have multiple tbsync address books and the results could be just swapped by the different address books?
I just have a single TbSync address book; it currently has something like 850 entries.
I have removed my own autocomplete implementation in TB102 and reverted to Thunderbird default. This should be fixed. If not, it is a bug in TB itself.