197100 - Search Ahead Find (Find While You Type) intermittently switches to matching individual characters in URLs

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 190555

(SeaMonkey :: Find In Page, defect)

Description

[Chris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

I think that the search ahead find feature for searching URLs in pages is
excellent. But I have found, especially with this 1.3 beta that it sometimes
seems to switch modes and find individual characters. If I type at a moderate
speed something like the words 'moderate' over a page that has all the words in
this description in it it will land first on 'sometimes', then 'to' then 'modes'
then 'modes' again with just the 'e' highlighted, etc.. In other words it seems
to switch from constructing larger and larger search strings as I add characters
to simply searching for the next occurance of each character as I type.

I haven't found any commonality about pages or situations in which this occurs.
Most disturbingly it seems to come and go. For a few minutes it will work fine,
then switch to the error mode I described above for a few minutes, then switch
back. I'm probably doings something (closing tabbed windows, switching from
pages containing frames to pages not containing frames, etc..) that is causing
this to happen or not happen, but I haven't yet worked out the pattern. 

I am suprised that this hasn't been reported before.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
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Comment 1

[Aaron Leventhal]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 190555 ***

Comment 2

[Chris]

excellent! Thanks!

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

vfry'ing as dup.