131472 - History / Bookmarks: Search or Find ?

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: History: Global, defect)

Description

[Bernard Alleysson]

1) Ctrl + H

the wording for searching history is "Search history..."
but in other places mozilla uses "Find":

a) "Find Bookmarks..."
b) "Find in this page..." (though the top menu is Search.... !)
c) shortcut is Ctrl+F, I mean shortcut for (F)ind ?

Why not use "Find history..." instead ?

Comment 1

[Bernard Alleysson]

I have to add that the dialog box title for "Search history..." option
is "Find in history" !
That says it all

Comment 2

[Dan]

And this also happens for the bookmarks search (or find).

Seeing as the main browser has find and CTRL-F, maybe it's best to stick with
find for history and bookmarks too.

Comment 3

[Dan]

... And also put it under the same menu as the Browser (Edit).

Comment 4

[Bernard Alleysson]

user interface design might be better

Comment 5

[Michael Lefevre]

seems like a fair point to me. i can't see a reason to choose between "search"
and "find in" for these, so being consistent would be better.  obviously might
be a WONTFIX, but i don't think it's invalid, so confirming.

Comment 6

[Andrew Hagen]

All/all. Bumping up to normal severity because currently our "find" menu item is
not in the same place in the history window as in other windows, and the wording
is ambiguous. For example, in the browser window "find in this page" is under
the Edit menu. In History, "search history" is under  tools. Currently, the
"find" feature is difficult to discover.

I'm strongly in favor of changing the wording to "find." The phrase "search
history" is ambiguous. It could mean a history of one's searches. It's
irrelevant to say "search history" when you're already in the history menu.

Comment 7

[R.K.Aa.]

*** Bug 198875 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[R.K.Aa.]

adding to summary since this is of more general interest than originally
reported (comment 2)