1420153 - tab completion in inspector makes find annoying to use

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: Inspector, defect, P3)

Description

[Pierre Ossman]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20171113102034

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Inspector
2. Press Ctrl+F to start searching
3. Type "ind", press Enter


Actual results:

It tab completed to ".index" because it found such a CSS selector in the page.


Expected results:

It should have searched for "ind".

Comment 1

[Pierre Ossman]

The workaround is pressing Escape first to abort tab completions.

A preferable system would be that no entry in the tab completion is selected by default and you have to press down to select one. After that it would be fine if Enter does completion.

Comment 2

[Patrick Brosset <:pbro>]

Thank you for filing. Ever since we made the search box able to search for both selectors *and* plain text, its UX has been less than ideal. I'm linking to a couple of related bugs so we can find this one easily in the future when working on this.