Comment 54 for bug 956618

(In reply to Thomas D. from comment #44)

> users correctly expect from the intrinsic purpose of nickname design,
> that nicks should have absolute priority in searches, which includes
> priority over frecency. Frecency is a way of automatically establishing
> *dynamic* nicks, but certainly *static* nicks that have been purposefully and
> explicitly defined by user must take precedence over that.

Adding "frecency", the big brother of this bug (but not required to fix this), is
Bug 382415 - Popularity index of autocomplete doesn't honor timeline (use frecency for email contacts)