(In reply to Magnus Melin from comment #98)
> I don't think this is ESR material as it's a new behavior not fixing a
> regression.

In view of 33 votes here and the quantity of bugs reported against
autocomplete result sorting algorithm, I find that evaluation
nitpicking. While in a strictly technical sense, this might not be a
regression, it's actually worse:

1) Once upon a time we delivered a feature which apparently has never
worked as intended and required by inherent design. That's a significant
failure which shouldn't have to wait any longer when it's finally fixed
9 years after being reported.

2) We have only recently exposed this problem significantly more by
expanding the scope of recipient search for certain scenarios. So, as
seen from numerous reports, users are now more affected by this design
problem, because of the changes made in recent version. Technicalities
aside, that looks like a de-facto regression to me (as confirmed by
users saying "it used to work until recently but now it fails").

I don't see any risks coming from this straightforward patch, except
that we're undermmining popularityIndex a bit more again, but this works
on exactly the same terms and conditions as Bug 970456 so there's
nothing new here.

So I still think this 5-line-patch should land on ESR.

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