Closed Bug 528678 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

Can't search whole word in Firefox Find Toolbar

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 269442

People

(Reporter: genuinem22-bugger, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5

Currently typing "cat" for example matches both "cat" and "catch". There is no way to instruct the find toolbar to match whole word only. People normally expect to find "cat" (not "catch") when they type "cat". Firefox should fix this behaviour or let people choose whether it wants "whole word match" or "partial word match". This is very basic searching function after all.

By the way I don't seem to find any addon which can do that either. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Reproducible: Always
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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