1163335 - When using Edit>Find on a particular webpage, the wrong text is highlighted

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 806146

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect)

Description

[d_friedman]

Attachment: Firefox find problem.tiff

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:37.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/37.0
Build ID: 20150415140819

Steps to reproduce:

1) I used the Edit>Find feature on this page: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/images/ch07_tab01.pdf

2) I entered "mega" into the Find text box.


Actual results:

The text "hyper" was highlighted.  4 matches were found -- all were "hyper", not "mega", which was the term I was searching for.


Expected results:

The text "mega" should have been highlighted.  "mega" appears on the page 4 times, but it was not highlighted.

Additional information: I am using FF 37.0.2 on Mac OS 10.7.5.  I tried to reproduce using another user account (different FF profile) on this same computer, and the same thing happened.

Comment 2

[Gingerbread Man]

Attachment: Firefox find problem.png

Comment 3

[d_friedman]

Hi -- I am the reporter of bug 1163335.  I do not think it is a duplicate of bug 806146.  In my bug, the text that is highlighted when running Find is completely wrong -- it bears no relationship to the text searched for.  This is not merely a problem with font/shifted highlighting (although I agree that perhaps a shift in the highlighted text is also happening.) Please look at the picture I uploaded again -- you will see that though I searched for "mega", "hyper" was highlighted. Thank you.

Comment 5

[Gingerbread Man]

In the example you provided, if you do the reverse and search for hyper, you'll get the same result as in attachment 788700 [details] : parts of words are highlighted with shifted placement. Therefore, I maintain that these are symptoms of the same root cause, and this report is a duplicate.