Ver 31.2.0 When addressing mail I can no longer use the 1st 1 or 2 letters of a name to find the address.

I have been using Thunderbird for many years. Before Thunderbird upgraded me to 31.2.0 I could, when sending /forwarding e-mails, just type the 1st 1, 2 and rarely 3 letters of the recipients name into the To, CC, BCC block was enough to have the required recipients address to the top of a normally very short list and just pressing enter, left it there. Since the upgrade whatever letter I type brings out a long list of recipients who have that letter anywhere in their name or e-mail address. An example: typing in an a for Alan brings up eddie & angela@......, followed by donavan@.........., henry@global... etc etc. Alan whose address I want is 17th on a list of which has about 80% of the
addresses in my address book. Had it been Ana I wanted, her name came up 28th on the list.
Please fix - it must seek names alphabetically.

Thanks but this does not rectify the problem. I even tried to restore the computer back to get my previous version - 1st 1 day, then 3 days but on both occasions could not open Thunderbird - Got error messages (send / don't send) As far as I know these go to Microsoft.

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