Comment 2 for bug 388112

Sure, I can take this one. :) I'm not sure I can get it this cycle, but I'll leave it targeted as such since I'm in an aggressive bug hunt mode for subscriber bugs.

I think the right fix is to sort by rank, rather than name, (so the likeliest matches top-post), and then show the first N results when the total is larger than N that can be displayed. We will need to investigate, too, if this change to the picker searching will be a problem for anywhere else this widget is used. My guess is not, since an empty result when dealing with a large result set would likely be a pain for most any use case.