Closed Bug 1471401 Opened 7 years ago Closed 7 years ago

The "whole words" search option does not work on pdf's.

Categories

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect)

61 Branch
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1282759
Tracking Status
firefox-esr60 --- wontfix
firefox61 --- wontfix
firefox62 --- wontfix
firefox63 --- wontfix

People

(Reporter: chaz.maschman2, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0 Build ID: 20180621125625 Steps to reproduce: I opened a pdf file, and used ctrl+f to open the search box. I then clicked on "whole words" and entered some text. Actual results: All appearances of my search term were considered valid. Expected results: Firefox should have only have considered whole word matches to be valid.
Hi, I was able to reproduce this issue using Windows 10 Pro(64-bit) on Firefox 61.0 (2018-06-21)(64-bit) Firefox Beta 62.0b3 (2018-06-25)(64-bit) Firefox Nightly 63.0a1 (2018-06-28)(64-bit)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Untriaged → PDF Viewer
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Unspecified → Windows 10
OS: Windows 10 → Unspecified
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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