Closed Bug 176160 Opened 23 years ago Closed 18 years ago

Multiple monitors: Display Find window near active browser

Categories

(Camino Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Product:
Camino Graveyard
Component:
General
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID
Milestone:
Future

People

(Reporter: mu, Unassigned)

References

Details

Selecting "Find in Page" currently results in the "Find" window showing up in the place where the user has put it the last time. While this is perfect for 1-monitor setups, it doesn't work well for setups with multiple monitors. Here, a user might be working with 3 browser windows on three monitors. When he is looking into the leftmost monitor and presses Cmd-F, the Find window might appear in the rightmost monitor, going unnoticed by the user since the appearance occured out of his field of vision and didn't catch his eyes. The user would be confused quite a bit as a result. Furthermore, he would need to constantly move the "Find" window manually towards any browser window he wants to work with in order to see a page and the find controls at the same time. I suggest that for multiple monitors setups, the "Find in page" window be displayed on the monitor containing the active browser.
Reporter, what build ID are you reporting this bug against?
Build ID 2002.10.20.04
Confirm. Should note this in bug 160771.
Assignee: saari → pinkerton
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
makes sense
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: --- → Chimera1.1
is bug 205945 a dupe?
*** Bug 205945 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Blocks: multimon-win
QA Contact: winnie → general
Target Milestone: Camino1.1 → Future
Should we WONTFIX this in favour of the Fx-like Find Toolbar (bug 258211), which would be anchored in the (active) window and therefore remove the need for this bug? cl
I don't think we've come to an agreement on eliminating the Find panel, since it's standard Cocoa UI. Until such point, if ever, that the Find panel is eliminated, this bug should remain open.
I think instead of remembering Find window position, we should center it on the active window. Presumably, the active window doesn't move around much, so that approach would result in approximately the same overall behaviour we have now, without the "Where'd my Find window run off to?" reaction.
Assignee: mikepinkerton → nobody
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Find panel is no more.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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