Add a setting to default all search results to "show as list"

[c0d3h4x0r]

Today in Thunderbird, search results always appear first in a totally-unhelpfully-cluttered view with unhelpfully-truncated details/excerpts. Extremely few results fit on a single screen height this way, and the information/context provided with each result is woefully insufficient to identify if I've found the right thing.

The vastly superior "show search results as list" option is always an additional click away. I say "vastly superior" because it actually shows far more results on-screen at a time, in a tabular/columnar format that makes it MUCH easier to determine the relevant details of each item, making it far faster to skim the results to find exactly what I was looking for. I always prefer this "show search results as list" view.

Sadly and frustratingly, there doesn't appear to be any setting to make "show search results as list" the default behavior for all searches so that I can bypass the useless "not-a-list" search results page. The lack of such a setting is, frankly, stupid.

Please add a global setting for this, along with a checkbox or pop-up dialog or something so that the first time I click that "show search results as a list" link, it offers to let me ALWAYS show ALL search results as lists by changing the global setting for me in-context.

Thank you!

[archie1]

The list format for the search result is much more helpul.

[Revers]

This is the only thing that bothers me about Thunderbird: the search results. Please, could you display the results as a list by default?

[Eingang]

Well, now we can be bothered by the fact that clicking "Show as list" results in an empty list in Thunderbird 140.6.0esr (64-bit) on Mac OS X. Wheee! And if you click an individual linked subject, that results in an empty window, too. <sob> It adds insult to injury. :sigh:

[soothsayer]

I agree with most everything that has been mentioned in this thread.

When I search my email, I do not want to use the cardview unless I explicitly need to read the 15 adjacent words to whatever my search term was. I have thousands of emails, even with good search queries you may need to peruse hundreds of emails, and the cardview shows ten per page...

I have found that I can almost always rely on the subject line & sender to find what I am looking for and have not needed the cardview more than twice over the years.

The cardview lacks (and will never achieve) the simplicity of using a sorted list view / table. With the cardview I can see at most nine emails on a 1440p monitor, while in the list view I can quickly browse over 40. If I want to find emails mentioning invoices, I search 'invoice' and then read the subjects & correspondents to find what I need. The body of the message is generally unimportant beyond SEO.

Please, allow the list view to be made the default.