Today we’ve released a new add-on the Mozilla Messaging team has been working on for a little while, the Quick Filter.  A new single folder search and filter system that will work alongside our previously released Thunderbird global search. The Quick Filter add-on is reminiscent of the old quick search system of Thunderbird 2.0  but [...]

For bug 484166 we’re moving away from the old search icon  to the newer Firefox search icon .  Included in this change we need to ensure this icon works for RTL as well as LTR.   With bug 481860 offering a way to use css to transform the image I just needed to test that the [...]

Over the past year the Thunderbird platform has received a large number of updates, however it is also seeing a number of improvements to it’s over all user experience.   In a recent email I tried to write out some of the major improvements that are in the works for the next bird release, here’s a [...]

To make an initial start on our new search aspirations we need to begin testing and trying out some of our improved searching ideas. Quick Search Our first step in this direction is to add an auto-complete on subjects in the Quick Search entry.  It’s important to get a lot of feedback on our search [...]

It’s time to start looking into a new search method for Thunderbird. One of the major changes planned for Thunderbird is a new and improve search, but what does that mean? What do we have? First lets look at what we have for a search system.  At a very simple level most search systems break [...]