Geoff Welsh wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
The autocomplete feature of the mail address field is very convenient,
unless the typist is slow. Since I have never cleared the Collected
Addresses list, I have thousands of entries, so if I type one character
in the mail address field, SeaMonkey immediately begins searching for
that one character. The result is what seems like a hang, until the
search completes a couple of minutes later. The same thing happens if I
backspace to correct my typing and stop with one character left.
Could we introduce a lag so that SM does not begin searching until, say,
1500 ms of inactivity? Alternatively, could we require at least two
characters before the search activates? (I think the second option would
work better, but I'm not a programmer so I don't know what's easy to
code)
Thanks.
you probably know this PBG, but for the casual reader, there are about
TEN official bugs relating to autocomplete problems, many of which are
considered duplicates of others.
Yes, I was aware of that.
In my experience, one or two squeaky wheels don't get much grease, but
if lots and lots of people complain about the same issue, someone will
take notice (comment not specific to this organization).
The so-called autocomplete, is actually a search function, which is the
root of the whole problem.
the key bug is this one:
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=970456>
explore idea? really? I guess starting to spell names from the
beginning is a new idea to the developers.
I agree with that bug, but I don't know how easy it is to change hit
ranking in this search feature.
My personal pet peeve in this area is that if I define a nickname, it
has no priority over hits that happen to contain that string. One of my
clients has the code "GEO" in all our files going back a dozen years,
but if I enter the nickname "geo" in the To: field, I get all kinds of
chaff that I didn't used to get when nicknames worked right.
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
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Paul B. Gallagher
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