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Believe me, Mozilla gets it!
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Sounds really good. Glad to hear it! My longtime POP client (Pocomail) has had something similar for years. I'm familiar with guided quickbar searches, I've used them happily for a long time... and I still prefer GMail's search.
The quick access search bars in both Poco and Tb are
defined searches. Both are designed to use specific parameters: they're limited to the open folder and they default to looking in a specific field (e.g., Subject or Sender). If the default settings aren't what I want, I have to do some tweaking. GMail's simpler: just type a search term and Google worries about the rest. Sure, sometimes I need to set parameters. But not every time.
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As for a global search, Thunderbird is perfectly capable of doing it via the full search screen.
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Yes, but that's an extra step and even though Tb is good, its full search isn't as fast as Google's.
I'm not trying to knock Tb. Not many clients have a quick search feature like Tb's. But Tb doesn't have the combination of simplicity and speed that are found in this new generation of search-based mail clients -- not just GMail but also
Bloomba and
Lookout for Outlook (recently purchased by Microsoft). These programs make searching easy and quick. In GMail, I run searches that would be too time-consuming to do in regular mail clients.
Lots of mail clients have global search. But none of the traditional clients makes it as
natural as the new breed of search clients.
GMail's search isn't perfect. It really needs a few more definable parameters. But IME it works marvelously well, and I think it's going to become the new standard for searching mail, just as Google set the standard for searching the web.