diff --git a/mailnews/base/search/resources/content/SearchDialog.js b/mailnews/base/search/resources/content/SearchDialog.js
index 9bdc17b0cc99..f3f53fb6cecf 100644
--- a/mailnews/base/search/resources/content/SearchDialog.js
+++ b/mailnews/base/search/resources/content/SearchDialog.js
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ function searchOnLoad()
   if (window.arguments && window.arguments[0])
       selectFolder(window.arguments[0].folder);
 
-  onMore(null, 0);
+  onMore(null);
   UpdateMailSearch("onload");
   
   // hide and remove these columns from the column picker.  you can't thread search results