151507 - Find Function Problems

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Chris]

The Find function (Edit | Find in this Page) seems erratic.  I have to click
several times on the Find button before it works and sometimes it does not work
at all.

Comment 1

[Andrew Hagen]

Reporter, use the the Bugzilla helper to report a bug.

What version of Mozilla are you using? Create a new profile. When you use a new
profile, can you reproduce the problem?

What are the exact steps you take to reproduce the problem?

Comment 2

[Andrew Hagen]

E-mail from reporter: "Version: Mozilla 1.0 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT
5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530. Same problem with new profile. I display a
web page in the browser, choose "control F" to open the Find window, enter a
word and click OK.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not."

WFM Mozilla 1.1 alpha, Windows 98.

Reporter, did you install Mozilla to an empty directory?

Comment 3

[Andrew Hagen]

Reporter's e-mail: "Yes I did:  c:\Program Files\mozilla.org."

On what web sites does this problem occur?

Comment 4

[Andrew Hagen]

Maybe this is a duplicate of bug 103484 or bug 127589.

Reporter, what did you mean by "Find button?"

Comment 5

[Andrew Hagen]

Reporter says in e-mail: 

"I mean the Find function (Edit | Find in this page... | Find dialog box
| Find button).

"It occurs randomly.  Sometimes it does not work on a site then I close
Mozilla, open it again and then it works on the same site.  Today it has
been working all the time and I do not remember the address of the sites
where it did not work."

Comment 6

[Akkana Peck]

If you see it happen again, note the site.  We can't diagnose or fix a bug if we
don't know how to reproduce it.

A couple of find fixes have gone in recently, so you may find the problem fixed
in recent trunk builds.

Comment 7

[Aleksander Adamowski]

Try http://c4clan.office.altkom.com.pl/stats/psycho/
On Linux, Mozilla trunk build 2002072421, "Find in This Page" usually works only
once, and then is disabled (on that page only) - the command in the Edit menu is
dimmed, and the CTRL-F shortcut doesn't work.

Confirming bug and changing OS to ALL.

teddymaflu: can you test with the URL I've provided? Does it happen to you too?

Comment 8

[Andrew Hagen]

PC/All.

WFM 1.1b trunk 2002072504 Windows 98. I can't reproduce the behavior noted in
comment 7 with this configuration.

Comment 9

[Aleksander Adamowski]

BTW this bug's component should be XPApps according to
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Browser#Search

Comment 10

[Aleksander Adamowski]

Apparently I'm seeing a new issue (Linux specific possibly?). I've opened bug
159418 on that.

Comment 11

[Andrew Hagen]

--> XP Apps: GUI Features. Reassign.

Back to PC/Windows. 

Still no way to reproduce the problem. QA wanted.

Comment 12

[Brent]

Test case for this bug?
(Mozilla 1.1, build 20020826, Windows 2000)

On this page, (bug 151507):
1.  Hit <End> to go to bottom of page.
2.  Click somewhere on bottom of page.
3.  Hit <Home>
4.  Hit <Ctrl-f>
5.  Make sure "Wrap around" is off
6.  Type "bug" and hit <Enter>

Result:  popup saying "The text you entered was not found."

Should the Find function care where you last clicked?

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Find wasn't working a moment ago when I looked at some bugs, looked at some
other application windows and then came back.  The "Find in This Page" and "Find
Again" menu items were disabled.  Hit "Reload" and the menu items were enabled.
Haven't reproduced it.

Comment 13

[Daniel Wang]

reporter (Chris), can you reproduce the bug in a newer build?

Comment 14

[Blake Ross]

Reassigning obsolete bugs to their respective Seamonkey owners (i.e. nobody). 
If you want this fixed for Firefox, change the Product and Component accordingly
and reassign back to me.

Comment 15

[rbs]

Re: Comment #12
> Should the Find function care where you last clicked?

Yes, it does. This is by design. If that's what you folks have been talking
about here, then it isn't a bug at all.

Comment 16

[Andrew Schultz]

no response from reporter
resolving WORKSFORME