[Bug 572987] [NEW] Upgrade to Thunderbird 3 breaks Mail Search Function

[Hadmut Danisch]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: thunderbird

Hi,

Upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 enforced the upgrade to Thunderbird 3, which
comes with a questionable tabbing design, breaking important features of
older Thunderbird versions.

With older Thunderbirds, you could simpy enter a search string.
Thunderbird then displayed the matching messages in the message list.
You could then select them all and, e.g., move them into a folder. This
allowed to rapidly sort and cleanup mailboxes and was very usefull.

Now with Thunderbird 3, when you enter a search string, it opens a
separate Tab, which requires to change the view to get the results. Even
worse, you cannot select these messages in any way, they are blown up
from one line to 5-6, require scrolling and paging, and there is no way
to process them together.

The Upgrade to Thunderbird 3 breaks really important features of the
older version.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: thunderbird 3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-21.59-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat May  1 14:10:01 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_US:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/tcsh
SourcePackage: thunderbird

** Affects: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid

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Upgrade to Thunderbird 3 breaks Mail Search Function
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