1927180 - Find in PDF doesn't work for multiple words on specific file

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect, P3)

Description

[Petruta Horea [:phorea], Desktop Test Engineering]

Attachment: search toolbars

Found in

• Firefox 133.0a1

Affected versions

• Firefox 133.0a1
• Firefox 132RC

Tested & Affected platforms

• Win 11 x64
• Ubuntu 22

Steps to reproduce

1. Access a PDF form with search option activated in the PDF bar (see https://web.archive.org/web/20060818161558/http://archive.dovebid.com/brochure/bro1514.pdf).
2. Press Ctrl(Cmd)+F to open the find toolbar.
3. Enter the following search-term: "work benches".

Expected result

• The phrase is successfully searched for and the matches are highlighted on the page correctly.

Actual result

• Text is found in the upper search toolbar, but not in the Find toolbar.

Regression range

• This is not a recent regression, I could reproduce back to 124.0a1 2024-01-22.

Notes
Ctrl+F first opens the bottom Find toolbar, then the upper one.

Comment 1

[Calixte Denizet (:calixte)]

It works as expected in Chrome so it should work in Firefox too.
When searching in a web page, for each iframe, embed, ... containing a pdf we should pass the searched string to the contained viewer, ....