Open Bug 1004511 Opened 10 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Provide next and previous buttons next to all search boxes

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(DevTools :: General, defect, P3)

defect

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(Not tracked)

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(Reporter: openjck, Unassigned)

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(Blocks 1 open bug)

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(Keywords: ux-consistency, ux-efficiency)

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The main page search box provided by Firefox (CTRL+F) provides next and previous buttons. To be internally consistent, the search boxes used in Developer Tools should also provide next and previous buttons.

I'm using the ux-consistency keyword here. The user experience team defines consistency as follows:

> User experience principle: in general software should be
> internally consistent with itself, and externally consistent
> with similar interfaces to leverage the user's existing
> knowledge.
Also tagging with ux-efficiency. In the proposed interface, less time is required to move to the next node and much less time is required to move to the previous node.

If my KLM numbers are correct, advancing to the next node when the search box is not already focused requires on average 1.5 seconds with the current interface, but only 1.3 seconds with the proposed interface. Advancing to the previous node (assuming there are three matched nodes, which I am assuming is about average) requires 1.7 seconds with the current interface, but only 1.3 seconds with the proposed interface. That's an efficiency savings of 15% and 30% respectively, which can be significant if search is used often.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke-level_model
Keywords: ux-efficiency
Firebug also provides previous and next buttons for all search boxes
Totally agree. Since there are no "next" / "previous" buttons in the DevTools, there is no way to go back to the previous search result. I can only step thru all results with pressing <Enter> which is like next. Totally awkward.
Sensible (and configurable) shortcuts for Prev and Next which show in a tooltip on mouse hover would be great, too. Though this might be put into an extra ticket.
For the Inspector search you can use ctrl+g and ctrl+shift+g to go to next / prev.  Agree this shortcut should be surfaced in the UI somewhere
See Also: → 1254111
> For the Inspector search you can use ctrl+g and ctrl+shift+g to go to next / prev.

Doesn't work for me on Windows (`Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0`). Instead ctrl+g and ctrl+shift+g opens Firefox's own native search dialog (same like ctrl+f). FWIW: I'm on a German locale.
(In reply to Jens from comment #6)
> > For the Inspector search you can use ctrl+g and ctrl+shift+g to go to next / prev.
> 
> Doesn't work for me on Windows (`Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64;
> rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0`). Instead ctrl+g and ctrl+shift+g
> opens Firefox's own native search dialog (same like ctrl+f). FWIW: I'm on a
> German locale.

Thanks for the heads up.  Filed Bug 1256658
Product: Firefox → DevTools
Severity: normal → S3
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