Open Bug 1709882 Opened 4 years ago Updated 4 years ago

"Find in page" checkboxes and clear button do not adjust their position when resizing the window

Categories

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Desktop
All
defect

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Tracking Status
firefox88 --- affected
firefox89 --- affected
firefox90 --- affected

People

(Reporter: gmoldovan, Unassigned)

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Affected versions

  • 88.0.1 (20210504152106)
  • 89.0b8 (20210504185920)
  • 90.0a1 (20210505215208)

Affected platforms

  • Windows 10x64
  • Ubuntu 20.04
  • macOS 11

Steps to reproduce

  1. Launch Firefox
  2. Access any web page.
  3. Open Find in page (Ctrl+F).
  4. Resize the window by making it smaller.

Expected result

  • Find in page resizes correctly. The checkboxes and the Clear button are adjusting as the window is resized so that they are still visible.

Actual result

  • Find in page does not resize correctly. The checkboxes and the Clear button do not adjust their position when the window is resized, rendering them not visible in the find toolbar.

Regression range

  • I don't think this issue is a regression since I was able to reproduce it on 46.0a1 (2016-01-01).

Additional notes

  • Screen cast attached to observe the issue.
Has STR: --- → yes

Hi Giorgia, thanks for filing!

Since find-in-page - and with that its visibility - is a highly contextual action. What I mean by that is that when you hit CTRL+F and with it intend to navigate or just find something on the page, it's unlikely that your next action would be to resize the browser window.
A case could be made to hide the findbar as soon as the window is resizing, but I'm sure that'd be a surprise. So that's not really an option.

I think the best way forward here is to keep the current behavior and accept the UX fallacy whilst resizing the window and really small window sizes.

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