cmd-f on macOS does not prefill the find bar with the selected text on the webpage
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(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)
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(Reporter: 1.800.O.Canada+bugzilla.mozilla.org, Unassigned)
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I have to MANUALLY enter the text "Firefox" in the search box in order to search
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:80.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/80.0
Steps to reproduce:
under Windows:
1)open any website like "https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/"
2)highlight any text like "Firefox"
3)press Ctrl-F and a search box with the text "Firefox" will be shown
4) I don't have to MANUALLY enter the text "Firefox" in the search box in order to search
but under macOS:
1)open any website like "https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/"
2)highlight any text like "Firefox"
3)press Command-F and an EMPTY search box will be shown
4) I have to MANUALLY enter the text "Firefox" in the search box in order to search
Actual results:
under Windows:
I don't have to MANUALLY enter the text "Firefox" in the search box in order to search
but under macOS:
I have to MANUALLY enter the text "Firefox" in the search box in order to search
Expected results:
I don't have to MANUALLY enter the text "Firefox" in the search box in order to search under macOS.
https://i.imgur.com/SZ1U5qC.png
That way, it saves me time entering the text to start searching.
https://i.imgur.com/Y2RTw5h.png
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Updated•6 years ago
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Updated•6 years ago
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Comment 1•5 years ago
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@ Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]
@ :Gijs (he/him)
For the next coming version,will Command-F on macOS prefill the find bar with the selected text on the webpage?
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Updated•5 years ago
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Comment 2•5 years ago
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(In reply to ⚜️Québec🇨🇦Canada🍁 from comment #1)
For the next coming version,will Command-F on macOS prefill the find bar with the selected text on the webpage?
No. This bug will be updated if/when it gets fixed.
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Comment 3•5 years ago
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(In reply to :Gijs (he/him) from comment #2)
(In reply to ⚜️Québec🇨🇦Canada🍁 from comment #1)
For the next coming version,will Command-F on macOS prefill the find bar with the selected text on the webpage?
No. This bug will be updated if/when it gets fixed.
👌I look forward to getting the 🆕update as the prefill is so useful👍
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Comment 4•5 years ago
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Now is Fx 82.0.2 and still hasn't been fixed yet...😱
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Comment 5•5 years ago
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(In reply to :Gijs (he/him) from comment #2)
(In reply to ⚜️Québec🇨🇦Canada🍁 from comment #1)
For the next coming version,will Command-F on macOS prefill the find bar with the selected text on the webpage?
No. This bug will be updated if/when it gets fixed.
@all
When I reported it, it was 80.0.1
And now it's 82.0.3 and hasn't been fixed yet...😱
I believe this is a minor fix that requires 👍minimum😊effort👌
Thank you:)Good day!
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Comment 6•5 years ago
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Please don't NI spam people. Per comment 2, the bug will change when there's updates. Please also see the Bugzilla etiquette page.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html
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Comment 7•5 years ago
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(In reply to Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM] from comment #6)
Please don't NI spam people. Per comment 2, the bug will change when there's updates. Please also see the Bugzilla etiquette page.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html
Thanks for the link!
I am new to BugZilla:)
Everyday is learning...
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Comment 13•5 years ago
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In fact, looking at TextEdit.app and Safari.app, they do the same thing - the find bar gets prefilled with the value of the find clipboard, see e.g. https://yiming.dev/clipping/2017/12/16/global-find-clipboard-on-mac-os/ . This happens even if you select content on the web page / in the text document loaded in TextEdit.app . So I think this is intentional, and this isn't a valid bug.
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Comment 14•5 years ago
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(In reply to :Gijs (he/him) from comment #13)
In fact, looking at TextEdit.app and Safari.app, they do the same thing - the find bar gets prefilled with the value of the find clipboard, see e.g. https://yiming.dev/clipping/2017/12/16/global-find-clipboard-on-mac-os/ . This happens even if you select content on the web page / in the text document loaded in TextEdit.app . So I think this is intentional, and this isn't a valid bug.
I read through your link about the Safari and Terminal.
It doesn't make sence that:
Under both Windows and Linux, Ctrl-F will prefill the find bar with the selected text on the webpage.
But under macOS, command-F does not prefill the find bar with the selected text on the webpage.
I believe Ctrl-F is equivalent to command-F in macOS.
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Comment 15•5 years ago
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(In reply to ⚜️Québec🇨🇦Canada🍁 from comment #14)
(In reply to :Gijs (he/him) from comment #13)
In fact, looking at TextEdit.app and Safari.app, they do the same thing - the find bar gets prefilled with the value of the find clipboard, see e.g. https://yiming.dev/clipping/2017/12/16/global-find-clipboard-on-mac-os/ . This happens even if you select content on the web page / in the text document loaded in TextEdit.app . So I think this is intentional, and this isn't a valid bug.
I read through your link about the Safari and Terminal.
It doesn't make sence that:
Under both Windows and Linux, Ctrl-F will prefill the find bar with the selected text on the webpage.
But under macOS, command-F does not prefill the find bar with the selected text on the webpage.I believe Ctrl-F is equivalent to command-F in macOS.
Personally, I agree that macOS' find clipboard is often unhelpful of the time. But it's a platform expectation and Apple's own applications do the same thing. This is one of many places where Firefox's behaviour is dependent on the OS, and so similar features may not always behave exactly the same way (e.g. the "share" functionality is also different when comparing Windows and macOS, because it integrates with the OS. Same for where certain menu items are (Firefox > Preferences on Mac, Tools > Options on Windows), and so on), as it's more common for people to use multiple applications on the same OS (100% of users) and expect consistency across those, than to use the same application across lots of different OSes (a much smaller group).
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