Closed Bug 214709 Opened 22 years ago Closed 21 years ago

CTRL-F Find acts weird when changing tabs

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: sgifford, Assigned: bugzilla)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030731 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030731 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 Bug 197622 doesn't seem to be fixed in FireBird. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open www.mozilla.org 2. Open a new tab (CTRL-T) 3. In the new tab, open www.mozillazine.org 4. Select Find in This Page (CTRL-F) 5. Search for moz 6. Switch to mozilla.org tab 7. Hit Find Next Actual Results: FireBird is searching the inactive tab. Expected Results: Searched the active tab. To make it even worse: 8. Close MozillaZine tab 9. Hit Find Next is still trying to search the now-nonexistent tab.
Patch for AppSuite is resting in bug 127589.
OS: Linux → All
QA Contact: asa → bugzilla
Hardware: PC → All
Confirming still broken in 20031029 Firebird/0.7+
confirming. Firebird 0.8.0+ (20040120) on XP
Confirm that the bug still exists in FireFox 0.9.
The above was on WINxp/PRO As a user, I DEFINITELY prefer the Find Dialog Box to simply change its focus to the open tab. No other "fix" is nearly as user-friendly. Sometimes, I WANT to search for the same text string in more than one open tab. (Which is how I found the bug and also illustrates how common this functionality is expected - check out the sheer number of duplicate bugs for this!) BTW, the added "Match Case" and "Wrap" features in 0.9.2 are nice. However, a Drop-Down instead of a Text Box populated with recent searches would be even better.
This bug is mooted by the new find toolbar which is tab-specific.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
I think that's a shame. I'd regard a new toolbar as a workaround, not a fix. Anyone using the standard find box is still going to consider this a bug, or bad UI.
QA Contact: bugzilla → general
I think it does what you want in Firefox 2. And I don't like it!
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