Thunderbird 3 users have access to a new feature called Quick Filter that enables them to quickly filter the emails of a specific folder in the email client. It is for instance possible to filter by email address, text, attachment, tag or only display emails that are from contacts in the address book, with everything happening in realtime.
These filters can be pinned so that they become available in all folders. It can happen that Thunderbird users do not find the emails they are looking for in the active filtered folder. Their options at this point are to either pin the filters and click through the other mail folders or perform a global search in hope of finding the right emails.
Unified Search is a project that tries to combine the functionality of Quick Filters with global searches. The extension in its current state makes it easier to launch a global search from the Quick Filter bar.
The search phrase entered in the Quick Filter bar can be used to initiate a global search in the email client, this is done by pressing Ctrl-Enter in the Quick Filter bar by default.
A new tab listing the global search results is spawned automatically after pressing the keyboard shortcut. That’s handy for users who work with Quick Filter most of the time to find emails and switch to global search if they cannot find the emails this way.
Options are provided to change the shortcut to either Alt-Enter or simply Enter.
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Unified Search is available for all Thunderbird 3 versions, it can be downloaded from the Mozilla Thunderbird website.
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