1390467 - Find As You Type: Search String Input Line does not appear

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1389622

(SeaMonkey :: Find In Page, defect)

Description

[lvm]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0 SeaMonkey/2.54a1
Build ID: 20170811005712

Steps to reproduce:

Find as you type is broken, find doesn't start neither after any key (preferences-advanced-find as you type-find automatically when typing... is on) nor after the explicit /

Introduced between builds 20170811005712 and 20170813013143

Comment 1

[Rainer Bielefeld]

NOT reproducible with unzipped installer of  official en-US SeaMonkey 2.54a1 (NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0 Build 20170813013143  (Default Classic Theme, German Language Pack active) on German WIN7 64bit

1. With active FAYT double click (highlight/select) string "proposed" behind "Add attachment"
2. Type "u"
   » find string input pane appears when type, search hit highlighted

11. With inactive FAYT (Menu 'Edit → Preferences → Advanced → FAYT) double click 
   (highlight/select) string "proposed" behind "Add attachment"
12. Type "u"
    » Nothing happens as expected
13. Type "/"
    » find string input pane appears when type

@Reporter:
a) Observation with Safe Mode?
b) Observation with new User Profile?

Comment 2

[Frank-Rainer Grahl (:frg)]

Probably bug 1389622. I will look at it when the removal dust has settled and 2.49.1 is out.