Closed
Bug 207601
Opened 21 years ago
Closed 21 years ago
UI to disable Find As You Type (type-ahead find)
Categories
(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)
Firefox
Settings UI
Tracking
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VERIFIED
FIXED
People
(Reporter: mozilla7, Assigned: mconnor)
Details
Attachments
(1 file, 6 obsolete files)
3.00 KB,
patch
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noririty
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review+
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Details | Diff | Splinter Review |
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6 I personally find type-ahead find to be annoying, since accidentally pressing a key tends to scroll unpredictably and I have to figure out where I was. It can be disabled, but not from the Preferences dialog. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Preferences 2. Look for a way to disable type-ahead find Actual Results: There is no such option. Expected Results: Perhaps it should be listed under General? Or perhaps a new category.
-> RFE Mozilla Firebird Help has a solution. http://texturizer.net/firebird/tips.html#beh_taf Don't let Mozilla Firebird bloated by mess of options. So I suggest WONTFIX.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Reporter | ||
Comment 2•21 years ago
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Whoops, sorry, should have been an RFE. Fixing subject. My concern is that the feature may be confusing to a new user, and it's not at all obvious that the feature is called Find As You Type (I didn't realize it had been renamed myself - saw the documentation but I guess I skipped over the introduction). Without knowing that, it's non-trivial to find it in the documentation. I agree that Preferences shouldn't become unnecessarily bloated, but I think this is reasonable. Personally I would prefer that it be turned off by default, and let users turn it on - this gives them a chance to see what it's called, so they can read documentation about how to use it if they want. This is how Safari's tabbed browsing feature works, for example - it could confuse new users, so it's off by default with an obvious option in Preferences. Getting it turned off by default is probably a losing battle though, so I won't fight it. :-) One definition of a bug is "a feature that can't be turned off". A feature that can't be turned off except by hacking JavaScript code is better, but not as good as it could be. :-)
Summary: Need UI to disable type-ahead find → [RFE] UI to disable Find As You Type (type-ahead find)
Comment 3•21 years ago
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don't use RFE keyword. use enh severity
Summary: [RFE] UI to disable Find As You Type (type-ahead find) → UI to disable Find As You Type (type-ahead find)
Assignee | ||
Comment 4•21 years ago
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taking QA contact, sorry about the bugspam
QA Contact: asa → mconnor
Comment 5•21 years ago
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Comment 6•21 years ago
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this js file should be placed next to pref-advanced.xul
Comment 7•21 years ago
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Attachment #130022 -
Attachment is obsolete: true
Assignee | ||
Comment 8•21 years ago
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Just because six prefs exist doesn't mean they all need to have UI Links only and on/off are all that end-users are likely to use. The rest is stuff more suited for hidden prefs.
Comment 9•21 years ago
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this patch only includes UI options for on/off, text/links only, and sound on/off. I thought it would be good idea to keep the sound pref as i have heard some people complaining about it.
Attachment #130021 -
Attachment is obsolete: true
Comment 10•21 years ago
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Attachment #130026 -
Attachment is obsolete: true
Assignee | ||
Comment 11•21 years ago
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simpler patch, for eight lines of JS we can hold off on adding another file for now, drop the sounds pref since its not going to bother 95% of people
Attachment #130087 -
Attachment is obsolete: true
Attachment #130088 -
Attachment is obsolete: true
Assignee | ||
Comment 12•21 years ago
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move options to accessibility, clean up wording
Assignee | ||
Updated•21 years ago
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Attachment #130128 -
Attachment is obsolete: true
Comment 14•21 years ago
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Comment on attachment 130131 [details] [diff] [review] revised patch r=noririty
Attachment #130131 -
Flags: review+
Comment 15•21 years ago
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fix landed
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Assignee | ||
Comment 17•18 years ago
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sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change
QA Contact: mconnor → preferences
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