Closed Bug 1268683 Opened 8 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Add regular expression capabilities to find (the "find in page" from ctrl+f)

Categories

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Find Toolbar
Version:
46 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 298127

People

(Reporter: donrhummy, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.86 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. Went to the Java API page: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/
2. Typed ctrl+f
3. Tried to search for "Method"

(When searching for things on a page, it can be very helpful and more efficient if the find box had a toggle to allow regular expressions.)


Actual results:

I had to hit "next" 16 times.


Expected results:

I should have been able to use regular expressions to search for a line that begins and ends with "Method". For exmaple: /^Method$/
Component: Untriaged → Find Toolbar
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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