Thanks for pointer to bug.
Last night I happened to open TBird on a secondary machine and on a whim tested the search
and did NOT get the problem. So maybe some weird configuration or corruption issue. I didn't
check version numbers (yet), but do allow updates as soon as they appear on notification panel.
However, I plan to keep using BetterBird for a while.
To answer JFM, I didn't have to do anything to get my setup active in BetterBird. It doesn't
set up a .betterbird directory but actually goes to the .thunderbird one and uses profile(s)
there.
JN
On 2026-07-04 05:57, Ron via linux wrote:
Nash JC - NCF via linux wrote on 2026-07-03 12:04:
I don't know if non-Linux versions of Thunderbird also suffer from this bug --
in searching for it I was unable to find anything I thought relevant.
This might not be entirely relevant, but an old TB search bug:
> have global search support exact matching (disabling stemming). ex: Searching for 'wedding' finds 'weds'
> Bug 752844 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752844> Opened 14 years ago Updated 3 months ago
I really thought there was a comment saying they'd be working on rebuilding the search, but I can't find it now.
Every episode of Thundercast (Thunderbird podcast), I hope to hear something about this. Still waiting.
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