173973 - incorrect typeahead find behaviour if the search starts with two equal characters

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Find In Page, defect)

Description

[Corrado Berti]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021009
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021009

try to highlight the text 'aab' in the test area

<Test-area>

1. aab
2. abb

</Test-area>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. type / (for full text search)
2. type a
3. type a
4. type b

Actual Results:  
typeahead search for a 'bb' text,

Expected Results:  
typeahead should search for a 'aab' text

i hope my english is ok ;)

Comment 1

[Adam Katz]

reproducable on windows xp, moz 1.2b build 2002101010.
this is not just aab->bb
but also bbc->cc
and ccd->dd
ooh, a trend...

can somebody confirm this on linux, mac, and/or a mozilla milestone?

Comment 2

[Adam Katz]

sorry for spamming, but this text may be useful on this page:
aabbccddeeffgghhiijjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzzaa
0011223344556677889900
AABBCC !!@@##

your english is fine, corrado.

Comment 3

[timeless]

i thought i reported this already, my testpages were the foreign yahoo sites and
google. but i couldn't find it :(

Comment 4

[Kalle Valo]

I can confirm this. cvs/trunk/Linux

Changing OS to All.

Comment 5

[Aaron Leventhal]

Attachment: Makes sure mRepeatingMode != eRepeatingChar when repeated char mode isn't being used

Seeking r=/sr=

Comment 6

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Comment on attachment 102902 [details] [diff] [review]
Makes sure mRepeatingMode != eRepeatingChar when repeated char mode isn't being used

r=caillon

Comment 7

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Comment on attachment 102902 [details] [diff] [review]
Makes sure mRepeatingMode != eRepeatingChar when repeated char mode isn't being used

sr=bzbarsky

Comment 8

[Andreas Lange]

This bug is very apperant if one tries to search for 'ssl'. :-)

Comment 9

[Corrado Berti]

aaron, can the patch be checked in?

Comment 10

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Comment on attachment 102902 [details] [diff] [review]
Makes sure mRepeatingMode != eRepeatingChar when repeated char mode isn't being used

a=roc+moz

Comment 11

[Aaron Leventhal]

checked in

Comment 12

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 176873 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Olivier Cahagne]

*** Bug 180569 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

vrfy'd fixed using 2002.11.19 comm trunk builds on linux rh7.2, win2k and mac
10.2.2.