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-As of Thunderbird 3.0.2 here is the current autocomplete algorithm:
+As of Thunderbird 3.0.4 here is the current autocomplete algorithm:
 * The basic sort order will be based on how many times you have sent an email to a particular e-mail address.
 ** Only "Local"/"Personal" address books take account of the count.
 ** Mac OS X and LDAP address books do not participate in the count and contacts in those books will appear at the end of the list.
-* If the number of times you have sent an email a contact is the same, then the sort order will be based alphabetically.
+* If the number of times you have sent an email a contact is the same, then the sort order will be based on alphabetically, but with primary emails appearing before additional emails.
-Note: 3.0 and 3.0.1 had a bug that affected the order such that it was a random order every time the same search string was entered. This is fixed in 3.0.2.
+Known bugs in 3.0.4:
-Known bugs in 3.0.2:
+* {{Bug|543114}} Mac OS X and LDAP address books do not participate in the count and contacts in those books will appear at the end of the list.
-* {{Bug|543088}} The "Primary" Email and Additional Email are always sorted alphabetically (this is targetted to land in 3.0.3).
+Bugs in previous versions:
-* {{Bug|543114}} Mac OS X and LDAP address books do not participate in the count and contacts in those books will appear at the end of the list.
+* TB 3.0 and 3.0.1 had a bug that affected the order such that it was a random order every time the same search string was entered. This was fixed in 3.0.2.
+* TB 3.0 through 3.0.3 had a bug where the primary and additional emails were sorted alphabetically regardless of status.