1271359 - Control + F -> Find. This doesn't automatically refresh the previously searched word.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[arjunakumar92]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.94 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Kept looking for words by just typing cntl+f . Which finds the searched word on current opened page.


Actual results:

But when i do a cntl + f again the previously searched word is still on the text box.


Expected results:

It should have automatically opened up a empty search box.

Comment 1

[B.J. Herbison]

The current behavior is to open the Find in Page box with the last search text selected but not start a search. Your options are:

- If you press Enter you search for the previous word. (I find this very useful.)

- If you type the previous selection is cleared and a new search is started with your typed characters.

- If you press End and type you start a new search with the old selection plus your newly typed characters.

- (And other variations for other keys.)

Is that what you are seeing?

If it is, what benefit do you see to clearing the previous search string?

Comment 2

[Meteor0ID]

I don't see this being an issue.

If the search bar is closed, the user browses to antoher page, copies some text, and later on opens the seach bar again using ctrl + f, you will see that the search bar automaticly fills in what ever is currently in the clipboard. On top of that, it auto selects the entire querry, and gives it focus. This means that if you sart typing anything, it will overwrite the querry which was automatically placed there.

The search box may not be empty, however it does not require any extra interaction to begine a search for a new querry.
I therefore judge this ticket to be invalid, I think the behavior you are really looking for is already present.