155802 - Wrap find does not work at all on some pages

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

On the Apple mailing list pages (see URL for an example), Find in Page does not
work at all. This makes searching the mailing lists very frustrating!

Comment 1

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Hrmm, it's actually wrap find that is broken. Making testcase.

Comment 2

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Look for the testcase in bug 155808. Layout actually gets really confused on
those pages, so it's no surprise that Find doesn't work. Marking dependency.

Comment 3

[Akkana Peck]

This one's Future until/unless the dependency gets a milestone.

Comment 4

[Andrew Schultz]

how can a browser bug depend on an envangilism bug?????

Comment 5

[Frankie]

The dependency has been resolved; Apple rewrote their list archives with less
awful HTML.

However, Mozilla still should be able to wrap find no matter how bad the page
code is.

Comment 6

[Jason Bassford]

Here's another example of wrapping that doesn't work.  Do a search for "calton".
 It find it twice, then, rather than wrapping, it simply says "The text you
entered was not found."

http://rss.com.com/2100-1016_3-1013530.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news

Is this the same thing as this bug or something else?

BTW: It's happening to me under Windows XP.

Comment 7

[Avi Rappoport]

I'm having the same problem with an xml file:

http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods85753651.xml

Comment 8

[Jim Booth]

I am seeing this same problem in Seamonkey for WINDOWS v2.0.12 on MOST PAGES, including, for example, the facebook.com wall or any Wikipedia article. 

Steps to reproduce:
1) Display a facebook wall page. Note a word, such as the user's name, that appears more than once on the page
2) Press CTRL-F and type that word into the find box.
3) Click Find Next repeatedly, and successive occurrences of the word are found.
4) When Seamonkey reaches the bottom of the page, it stops and does not wrap around to the top.  (If the Wrap checkbox is not checked, an error dialog box is shown.)
5) Each time Find Next is pressed ERROR CONSOLE displays: 
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004003 (NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER) [nsIWebBrowserFind.findNext]"  nsresult: "0x80004003 (NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://global/content/finddialog.js :: onAccept :: line 105"  data: no]

I RECOMMEND that PLATFORM be changed to ALL and the dependency on the other bug removed.

Comment 9

[Akkana Peck]

Removing myself as assignee for editor bugs, since the editor project is (sadly) long gone.