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!

[Jon]

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[Aetherisys]

Looks like someone got to it before me. I was about to ask the same thing. I like the more compact and cleaner look of list view results as search.