127503 - allow one find dialog per tab (currently only one per window)

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Tabbed Browser, enhancement)

Description

[Mikel Ward]

If I have several tabs open and I select the first, use the keyboard shortcut
for "Find in this page" (e.g. control-F), a find dialog appears.  If I keep this
dialog open, then select the second tab in the same Mozilla window and try to
use find, a second dialog box does not appear.  Separate find dialogs for
separate windows work fine.

build: mozilla 20020204 on Linux/FreeBSD

Comment 1

[Quinn Yost (mythdraug)]

Conf:  Enhancement

Comment 2

[timeless]

dontfix. you want us to give the user 10 find dialogs for a single window and 
have only one of them work? the single find dialog should work on the active 
tab.

Comment 3

[Peter Trudelle]

I agree, resolving as wontfix.

Comment 4

[Michael Wardle]

I filed this as I thought the behaviour inconsistent.  Shouldn't tabs
essentially act as tho they were new windows embedded in the one parent window?
 If this assumption is correct, then it is my understanding that find should
function the same whether the current page is in a new tab or a new window,
which means control-F should bring up a find dialog box for the current page. 
Currently, pressing control-F does nothing if there's already a find dialog box
active for *any* tab within that parent window.

Is my assumption wrong?  Should tabs act as windows, or shouldn't they?

Comment 5

[timeless]

vrfy

reporter: if find doesn't focus the find dailog for the current window or if 
the find dialog for the current window does not work on the current tab, then 
please file a bug if you cannot find a bug describing those behaviors.

there should be one find dialog per window, and it should work, if it doesn't, 
that's a bug, however given the summary and description i wanted to clearly 
mark this wontfix instead of morphing this bug to solve what might be a real 
bug.

Comment 6

[Peter Trudelle]

Michael: No, this is not MDI, tabs are not windows, they *share* a window, and
should share per-window dialogs.  I don't see the behavior you describe on
Win2k, but if Linux is failing to focus an existing Find dialog from another
tab, please file a separate bug report.