647708 - searching for a link using the ' shortcut finds links that are not visible on the page.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, enhancement)

Description

[postingandjunk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

for example it finds links that are hidden in java script menus.
searching for "ranking" will display the behavior

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. press '
2. type in ranking
Actual Results:  
see links are found but nothing is highlighted, the problem being that the link isn't visible on the page but will show up if you expand the menus

Expected Results:  
only the visible links should be searchable

Comment 1

[alex_mayorga]

I can reproduce on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.2a1pre) Gecko/20110404 Firefox/4.2a1pre ID:20110404030429 but I personally would consider this bug a feature.

I'll be using extensively for the time being and hope they don't fix it, is a big usability improvement ad you don't have to mouse on the menus but you still see where you're going on the "URL bubble" =)

Comment 2

[postingandjunk]

with more research it seems all the browsers behave the same way. i think it would be really useful if there was some way of knowing that the link is not visible or something along those lines. so i guess this isn't a bug but a feature request.

Comment 3

[[:Aleksej]]

Related bugs:
bug 305381, bug 407817; bug 592336, bug 622801, bug 809881.

Comment 4

[Mike de Boer [:mikedeboer]]

I think this issue has since been resolved.
If you feel this issue was closed in error, please feel free to re-open.