1238265 - Search/Find input is getting cleared while typing

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Axel]

Attachment: Search gets cleared.gif

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0
Build ID: 20151216175450

Steps to reproduce:

When I type <CTRL>+<F> on the keyboard to perform a text search, it happened to me several times now with the current version of Firefox that my find input text gets cleared right while I'm typing.

I can't tell what the prerequisites are for this to happen. But when it happens with a page I can reproduce the error until I refresh the page again. Then the faulty behaviour disappears.


Actual results:

I hit <CTRL>+<F> for entering the find text box and started typing. While I was typing, the text in the find input text box got randomly cleared by Firefox.

I have attached an animated GIF demonstrating the issue. I have been trying to enter "abcedfg" several times. As you can see from the GIF, some status messages appeared randomly and the text box got cleared while I was typing.


Expected results:

Text entered into the find text box should remain steady while I'm typing.

Comment 1

[Mike de Boer [:mikedeboer]]

Your GIF doesn't show the findbar in the state when it's opened with CTRL+F, but with '/' or ''' - Quick find.
I don't think the text input field should reset in the quick find mode, put still it's a notable difference.

Can you reproduce this issue on a fresh profile as well?

Comment 2

[Axel]

Actually I haven't been able to reproduce the issue since the day I reported it.

I don't know what caused the issue, but it never occured to me again.

Please close.