118393 - Find Bookmarks is too heavyweight

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 56418

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P3)

Description

[Peter Trudelle]

The Find bookmarks feature is too heavyweight.  It should either be renamed
Search to match the results, or work like other Find features in the product,
and the Bookmkark find feature in previous versions.

Comment 1

[Samir Gehani]

Nav triage team: nsbeta1+/adt3.  The Tools menu in the bookrmarks manager says
``Search Bookmarks'' but the dialog title and text says ``Find Bookmarks''. 
Please change the dialog title and text to be consistent with the menu item and
say ``Search Bookmarks''.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 95748, which asks for 4.x's behavior of just highlighting the found
bookmark rather than opening a new search-results window.

Comment 3

[Peter Trudelle]

Yes, that is what most people want.

Comment 4

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Most people want 4.x style find and not something easier, more obvious and
considerably more powerful like quicksearch is in mailnews? 

Comment 5

[Peter Trudelle]

That's a secondary consideration, the primary difference is that they want to
find the item in context, not isolated out of context, as search and quicksearch
currently do.  I do think that quicksearch would be a valuable addition to Find,
much better than having the current Search, but not a replacement for Find.

Comment 6

[Daniel Wang]

see bug 93058 and bug 162542

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 162542 ***

Comment 7

[Peter Trudelle]

reopening, this is not a dup of either of those bugs.

Comment 8

[Hans Deragon]

I agree with Trudelle.   This is not a dup of either of those bugs.

Comment 9

[timeless]

Attachment: two possible changes

we don't have two do either of these, but they're talking points.

i think changing the dtd is definitely worth doing, but i'm not sure what
people would say to changing ctrl-f to ctrl-shift-f (note that it's accel, not
control, so it is platform sensitive, but ...)

Comment 10

[Samir Gehani]

Over to Jan.

Comment 11

[Samir Gehani]

Nav triage team: nsbeta1-

Comment 12

[Daniel B.]

Could someone add the 4xp keyword; I don't have permission to do so.

Comment 13

[Daniel B.]

> Most people want 4.x style find and not ...

Yes!  We want to be able to find our bookmarks within the bookmarks 
hierarchy (such as to do something besides request the bookmarked
page).


> something easier, 

How is getting a list of matching bookmarks easier?  It doesn't help
one bit with finding bookmarks within the hierarchy.

> more obvious and

Huh?

> considerably more powerful 

It's not more powerful.  

Comment 14

[Daniel B.]

Note that bug 209201 is related.

Comment 15

[David E. Ross]

I just now reviewed the comments for this bug, for bug #56418, and for bug #95748.  These all appear to be duplicates of each other.  Two should be closed. 

See my comment *67* under bug #56418.  

Comment 16

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

duping

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56418 ***