182513 - typeahead find doesn't work out-of-the box on Mac OS 9

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Find In Page, defect)

Description

[Allan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126

I've just upgraded from Mozilla 1.1 stable to 1.2 on my 9.1 Mac, and I cannot
get type ahead find to work at all. I checked the information page, and on
checking my prefs.js file found absolutely no mention of it in there. I added
the commands mentioned to turn it on, and restarted Mozilla, but it still
doesn't work.

Note: somehow, strangely, I managed to get it to work ONCE. And it was great!
But now it seems to have gone into hiding again.

Is there a preference I'm missing somewhere, or has the installer fouled up the
upgrade or something similar?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to type ahead find on any page

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens

Expected Results:  
Type-ahead found

This blocks bug 30088 as the QA testing page asks me to add, but this
hand-holding form won't let me put that in the proper location...

Comment 1

[Ben Escoto]

I have the same problem on Mac OS 8.6

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

Confirmed on Mac OS 9.2, build 2002112508 (1.3a).

I use it every day on Windows NT for at least 2 months, but never on the Mac.
I've seen it work a few times, but I could never repeat it, not even in a
brandnew profile. 

I'm using the following preferences, according to about:config :

user_pref("accessibility.typeaheadfind", true);
user_pref("accessibility.typeaheadfind.enablesound", true);
user_pref("accessibility.typeaheadfind.linksonly", true);
user_pref("accessibility.typeaheadfind.startlinksonly", false);
user_pref("accessibility.typeaheadfind.timeout", 4000);

Comment 3

[p.terhoeven]

I have the same problem on a German 9.1 system. I tried every possible
configuration of the user_pref settings, but it did never work.

Comment 4

[lijin8]

I am using OS 9.2.2 simplified Chinese and Type ahead find worked for me only
ONCE and I just don't know how to keep it work all the time. Now when I type
anything into the browser window, nothing happens.

Comment 5

[Eric Rosenbloom]

Problem here, too. 1.2.1 on Mac OS 9.1 (US). No typeahead, although it's in the
prefs.

Comment 6

[Frankie]

Mozilla CFM build is dead.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=avkj4k%24ihs2%40ripley.netscape.com