103484 - bringing up Find dialog doesn't always set focus to the textfield

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Randolph Fritz]

It is, unfortunately, an intermittent problem--I'll try to pin it down more
precisely in the next few days.

Comment 1

[Samir Gehani]

Find dialog, therefore -> XPApps: GUI Features.

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

WorksForMe using Mac/2001091311 (0.9.4). Marking WFM pending more detailed 
information from the reporter.

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

reopening. i see this off and on, irritatingly.

->bryner? but do reassign as needed...

i sometimes notice that [on the trunk, not with 0.9.4 branch so far] Find in
Page doesn't focus the textfield --a recent bug was filed on this, bug 103484,
which i will reopen to cover this intermittent issue... eg, today i saw it on
Mac 10.1 with a one profile, but not another [both existing, non-migrated ones].

is there anything else i should check? let me know if i should attach any
profile-specific files to help narrow this down...thx!

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

confirming, and really handing over to bryner. :)

Comment 5

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

reassigning to saari since he has a mac and I don't... is there a bug going on
here that's different from bug 96843?

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

this might not be limited to mac...methink i *might've* seen this on linux. will
investigate...

Comment 7

[saari (gone)]

Those of you that see this bug, tell me what version of MacOS and what speed
machine you're running on. This could be a timing issue.

Comment 8

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

saari, i'm running 10.1 on a 450Mhz G3.

Comment 9

[Chris Newman]

I see the problem every time I bring up the Find dialog:

Mozilla 0.9.5, classic theme, MacOS 9.2.1, 500MHz G3

Comment 10

[Chris Newman]

An observation that might be helpful.  When I run Mozilla (0.9.5 MacOS 9.2.1) at
home using my profile with no web proxy, the find dialog mostly works (only
problem is the cancel button doesn't work when input field is empty).  When I
run Mozilla at work using my profile with a web proxy, the find dialog opens in
the upper left corner, the textfield doesn't get the focus, and the Find button
seems to do nothing.

Comment 11

[saari (gone)]

I still don't see this happening on my G3 500 PowerBook running 9.2 or either my
faster (1.2 GHz) or slower (P3 500) Win2K boxen.

Comment 12

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass moving open bugs pertaining to find in page/frame to [e-mail] as
qa contact.

to find all bugspam pertaining to this, set your search string to
"AppleSpongeCakeWithCaramelFrosting".

Comment 13

[Johannes Almiala]

Can you tell if  this 'textfield' means the page shown? I keep experiencing the
annoying effect that the find dialog does not find a word I see on the page, or
it does find the first occurrence ( like if I try to find the word 'format'
while typing this, it find it in the 'information' in  Greg Kolaneks comment,
not the 'Format For Printing' that's before it.)

Version: Win32 build id 2002070908, I've also seen this on Linux.
What: Find Dialog does not always find the 1st occurrence of a string.
How: Click on somewhere on the page. Ctrl+F to open find dialog. Type a string
you see.
Expected result: The first matching string should be highlighted.
What happens: Sometimes it is not the first string that is found, but some other
down the page. If you don't click on the page, sometimes you get 'text you
entered was not found' alert.
Reproducability: Almost always

Well, if I dont hear from anyone I'll file a separate bug or two; the cases
might not be related.

Comment 14

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

This bug is targeted at a Mac classic platform/OS, which is no longer supported
by mozilla.org. Please re-target it to another platform/OS if this bug applies
there as well or resolve this bug.

I will resolve this bug as WONTFIX in four weeks if no action has been taken.
To filter this and similar messages out, please filter for "mac_cla_reorg".

Comment 15

[Randolph Fritz]

I haven't seen this in years.  In fact, I think the dialog box is gone.

Comment 16

[Johannes Almiala]

I haven't seen it either. I didn't even remember this, no wonder after five years.