249864 - find as you type: ignore prefix of increasing length, if text not found

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Find In Page, enhancement)

Description

[abraendle]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Feedreader)
Build Identifier: 

Feature proposal:

The find as you type feature has an internal pointer on a certain place in the 
document where the search starts, ok.

If the current search string cannot be found, what about trying to find the 
text with ignoring the first character(s). If i press Backspace then of course 
Mozilla must jump back to where it was one moment ago.

(i could wait 3 seconds & start a new search, i know, however i find the 
proposed behaviour nicer)



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Bogdan Stroe]

You can pres the Escape key to cancel the current search. Your proposal is
somehow confusing, what would be the reason to ignore the first letter in a
search? After a while the second letter would be ignored too?

In my opinion this should be INVALID or WONTFIX.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

QA/owner is this a WONTFIX?

(if nothing else I think this behavior would confuse the heXX out of people)

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

[fixing finger check]

this is bad for user consistency -> WONTFIX