1585897 - Ctrl+F should search highlighted text on OSX

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[clessili]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:71.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/71.0

Steps to reproduce:

Highlight text with mouse cursor and then press Ctrl+F (Command+F on Mac) to search on page.

Actual results:

Nothing special, last searched term was already in the search bar.

Expected results:

Highlighted text should be put in the field to search for similar words on the page. It's a useful feature on most IDEs and text editors, and highlighted text can already be immediately searched on the web via context menu.

Comment 1

[clessili]

Actually it looks like the issue is only on macOS, and is reproducible on a new install of 69.0.2.
I'm on Mojave, but I'd like to know if I'm the only one affected, as it would seem strange that no one else noticed.

Comment 2

[Alin Ilea, Desktop Test Engineering]

Hi,

I have managed to reproduce this issue on latest FF release (69.0.2), Beta 70.0b12 and latest Nightly build 71.0a1 (2019-10-07) using Mac OS X 10.14.
On windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04 the issue is not reproducible.

Thanks for the report.

Comment 3

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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Comment 4

[Mike de Boer [:mikedeboer]]

This is not common behavior on MacOS; normally you'd select text, press CMD+e, which will copy the selected text to the special find clipboard and when you open the find toolbar, it'll show that text.