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When composing an email and entering a recipient, please provide option for address book matching to be ^name instead of *name (regex) , please?

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mwilkens
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My address book contains the display name Ken Ng, whose email address is "the_ngs@..." My name is mike wilkens and my email address is "mikewilkens@..."

Previously, I could compose an email and address it to Ken by typing "ken" and he would show up as the first choice. It was logical. Now, when I type "ken" it begins with several others including me since "ken" appears somewhere within "mikewilkens". The people actually named Ken appear at the bottom of the list.

Using regular expression symbology, having "^name" as the first priority to display is logical whereas "*name" is not, at least not to me and the way it's been acting for years.

Could we please have an option for this? (Even if it has to be hidden in about:config)

My address book contains the display name Ken Ng, whose email address is "the_ngs@..." My name is mike wilkens and my email address is "mikewilkens@..." Previously, I could compose an email and address it to Ken by typing "ken" and he would show up as the first choice. It was logical. Now, when I type "ken" it begins with several others including me since "ken" appears somewhere within "mikewilkens". The people actually named Ken appear at the bottom of the list. Using regular expression symbology, having "^name" as the first priority to display is logical whereas "*name" is not, at least not to me and the way it's been acting for years. Could we please have an option for this? (Even if it has to be hidden in about:config)

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Or as I usually describe it, we've changed from "starts with" to "contains". There are not too many regex aficionados in here. ;-)

This bug is annoying many users. I'm not so sure it's a backward step; it seems it's easier for someone such as myself with increasingly vague and inexact recollection to find an Address Book entry without needing an accurate starting point for the search. The ability to search by any part of the address, such as the domain, or the nickname, seems useful to me too.

If you typed "Ken " or "ngs" then you'd likely get the entry you want, wouldn't you?

A more significant bug, IMHO, is that when you have selected Ken's entry, it isn't necessarily the one that gets inserted into the address field.

There is a bug for this and it's being worked on, but I'm not sure you'll get your /^name/ option. You could go back to, say, TBv24.6.

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/