[GuestFAUniverse]

IMO search is garbage in all Mozilla products.

E.g. Thunderbird ignores potential matches in quoted mail text. That's utterly useless if one remembers a certain mentioning by the other side. Plus, now and then repairing the index suddenly leads to matches -- when is the right time to repair? I don't now -> always if it's seriously important...

[E39M5S62]

Thunderbird search is bad enough that I just open up the Gmail website to find an email. At this point I don't even know why I use a local email client, except maybe 25 years of muscle memory.

[bayindirh]

I kindly disagree. Yes, Thunderbird's search is not revolutionary, but when I direct it to a box containing ~20 years of e-mails, it returns instantly, searching for the words that I want.

...and I'm not even downloading the e-mails to the system to save disk space. I have explicitly disabled that.

[bsder]

See, now "local repository search" is one of those things that you would think that somebody would use one of the LLMs for.

Alas, that would be "useful" but not Unicorn Lottery Ticket Useful and so will never get implemented.