Ctrl+K search in TB does not find contact (but in the Address Book it works)
Some of my contacts are not listed by the Ctrl+K search. For privacy concerns I will not use the right name here, but lets say I know a person called Johnny Smith. When I type 'John' in the Ctrl+K search field there is a long list of people, but the moment I get to 'Johnn' the list it empty. What is the problem? Why is he not found? I know for sure that he is one of my TB contacts. When I open the Address Book, type Ctrl+K and 'Johnny', he is displayed on the list. Does 'johnny' have to be part of the email address itself?
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Try rebuilding the global database and see if that changes the search results.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/rebuilding-global-database
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Global Search, Ctrl+K, searches for messages 'mentioning' contact@domain.com, so the contact has to be in a sent or received message header. It does not search Address Book for the contact - that is done by Edit/Find/Search Addresses... or directly in Address Book.
I do have mails to and from the mentioned person. So that doesn't really explain it.
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Try rebuilding the global database and see if that changes the search results.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/rebuilding-global-database
Yes - that worked! Thank you! And it kind of makes sense considering my other question/problem: "All tabs disappeared when TB restarted" - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1358515 Unfortunately I have not received any answer to that question yet.