Folders browsing in Mini Bridge. Best practice

Good morning,
I use Bridge since we have no possibilitiy to see PSD files preview in Photoshop open dialog anymore and pretty satisfied with Bridge functionality.
But Mimi Bridge is different story. For example, I have some dosens of subfolders within main 'Work' folder and usually jump to the right folder simply typing first letters (client name). This works in Bridge but not in Mini Bridge, making the addon useless for me (scrolling is too time consuming for my business).
What is your personal best practice for file browsing in Mini Bridge? Can I switch-on 'browsing through typing' somehow?

What is your personal best practice for file browsing in Mini Bridge? Can I switch-on 'browsing through typing' somehow?
After the first appearance in CS4 (I believe?) it was a promising panel with great possibilities to come. Sadly enough they screwed the next version in a very bad way and never made an effort to repair or develop it further for production user needs and requests (which nowadays seems common practice with Adobe to be frankly).
Your best shot is preparing a collection or a smart collection (with your clients name as search for a complete result) in Bridge itself and navigate to the collection in the folder panel of MB. This avoids to have long waits for cache to build for each new selected folder and multi clicking to find the wanted folder. But as said, that is not the solution you really wanted to hear.
For me first preparing a collection in Bridge with the files I think I need for a project (mostly for a photo album) and then chose this in MB is the only way to make MB working in some way. Combined with creating a new workspace in PS with a floating MB panel (otherwise you can't have multiple rows of thumbs). This is still better then switching between applications but knowing that it could have been so much easier often makes me angry...

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