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Ver 31.2.0 When addressing mail I can no longer use the 1st 1 or 2 letters of a name to find the address.

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hycr1108
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I have been using Thunderbird for many years. Before Thunderbird upgraded me to 31.2.0 I could, when sending /forwarding e-mails, just type the 1st 1, 2 and rarely 3 letters of the recipients name into the To, CC, BCC block was enough to have the required recipients address to the top of a normally very short list and just pressing enter, left it there. Since the upgrade whatever letter I type brings out a long list of recipients who have that letter anywhere in their name or e-mail address. An example: typing in an a for Alan brings up eddie & angela@......, followed by donavan@.........., henry@global... etc etc. Alan whose address I want is 17th on a list of which has about 80% of the addresses in my address book. Had it been Ana I wanted, her name came up 28th on the list. Please fix - it must seek names alphabetically.

I have been using Thunderbird for many years. Before Thunderbird upgraded me to 31.2.0 I could, when sending /forwarding e-mails, just type the 1st 1, 2 and rarely 3 letters of the recipients name into the To, CC, BCC block was enough to have the required recipients address to the top of a normally very short list and just pressing enter, left it there. Since the upgrade whatever letter I type brings out a long list of recipients who have that letter anywhere in their name or e-mail address. An example: typing in an a for Alan brings up eddie & angela@......, followed by donavan@.........., henry@global... etc etc. Alan whose address I want is 17th on a list of which has about 80% of the addresses in my address book. Had it been Ana I wanted, her name came up 28th on the list. Please fix - it must seek names alphabetically.

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user01229325
user01229325
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They broke the address book with ver. 31. They claim to be working on it but several version later it is still broke.

hycr1108
hycr1108 Mai mallakar tambaya
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Thanks but this does not rectify the problem. I even tried to restore the computer back to get my previous version - 1st 1 day, then 3 days but on both occasions could not open Thunderbird - Got error messages (send / don't send) As far as I know these go to Microsoft.

user01229325
user01229325
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It wasn't meant to rectify the problem only explain it. I fixed the problem by sticking with version version 24.6. Trying to revert to an older Thunderbird version with Microsoft restore points is crazy. Download the version you want and install it.