+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1770844 +++

102.0a1 (2022-05-27) (64-bit), Win10

Regression: No nick name field on the edit contact form.

• Nick name field is very different from display name.
• Nick name field is only known to Thunderbird user, but never publicly exposed when sending like display name.
• Searching for a full unique nick name in recipient autocomplete guarantees the contact of the nick name to be the top match, so if I have thomas8 specified as a nickname for Thomas Duellmann, that will match reliably every time without the need to have thomas8 in the display name.
• We don't want to break users' existing nick names (which would be dataloss).

Urgent as it needs strings.

I think this one would be important to fix.

I'm on it!
This depends on bug 1771824 as the display name behavior and positioning will affect the nickname section a bit.

Pushed by geoff@darktrojan.net:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/7be816a9528f
Restore the nickname field in the new address book. r=darktrojan,henry

Comment on attachment 9280393 [details]
Bug 1771569 - Restore the nickname field in the new address book. r=darktrojan,henry

[Triage Comment]
Approved for beta

Thunderbird 102.0beta7:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-beta/rev/8c15e38ce065