Might sound silly, but can you explain me that?
I add a contact to Gmail using standard view
contacts > click at the '+' sign and add an email contact, say john (1st) Dude (last), john.dude@gmail.nonono
Close everything, open Gmail again (HTML or standard view), start new email and type in 'To:' field the word John.
Nothing comes. I just wanna have my contacts suggested in the 'To:' field of gmail. What is wrong?