1364835 - Preferences search does not offer results that are not on the about:preferences page directly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1352481

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Michal Stanke (Mozilla.cz) [:mstanke][:MikkCZ]]

STR:
1) Open preferences with search enabled.
2) Type "proxy" in the search field.
3) There are no results.

What should happen:
The search should offer connection settings from "Privacy and Security" as a result, where the proxy is configured.

I guess there will be many more words, that won't be found, like some from certificates of encoding, font and color settings.

Comment 1

[Evan Tseng [:evanxd]]

Hi Michal,

(In reply to Michal Stanke (Mozilla.cz) [:MikkCZ] (off until 05/2017, use needinfo) from comment #0)
> STR:
> 1) Open preferences with search enabled.
> 2) Type "proxy" in the search field.
> 3) There are no results.
> 
> What should happen:
> The search should offer connection settings from "Privacy and Security" as a
> result, where the proxy is configured.
> 
> I guess there will be many more words, that won't be found, like some from
> certificates of encoding, font and color settings.
You are right.

We've already worked on this on Bug 1352481. It will be fixed after Bug 1352481 patch is landed.

Thanks for filing the bug. :)