Comment 100 for bug 1164016

@Ajay: That's a rather subjective opinion! Search will always get slow on huge folders. Because of the technical nature of type-ahead it is still fast even on huge folder contents. When I use type-ahead it takes me less than 1 second to choose and enter a folder.
I know my folders and their subfolders, I'm dependent on the speed of type-ahead because I use a chain of multiple letter and enter key strokes to navigate through many folders in a second. If type-ahead would be replaced by search, the speed of search results would depend on the folder's content size and I would not be able to use my quick chain of key strokes anymore due to the irregular response time of the search.
I admit, this is a rather subjective opinion as well! But type-ahead has been there for years, it is also integrated into the file managers of OS X or Windows and into the majority of the Linux ones. Your solution mentioned might be an improvement for _some_ people. But that doesn't mean it should replace type-ahead. It could be added as an optional feature that can be activated within the settings. Linux software in general is about configuration & customization - not about claiming you know what is best by forcing your opinion on others and killing features. The latter is exactly what happened to nautilus and why we have this long discussion here.