258094 - FEATURE REQUEST: Make Edit => Find center the page after search

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 78833

(Firefox :: Disability Access, enhancement)

Description

[Jari Aalto]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040823 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040823 Firefox/0.9.3

FEATURE REQUEST

Please add a configuration option to make the Edit-Find (or "search" in behavior
in general)  recenter the page after every successful search. 

THE PROBLEM IN CURRENT SEARCH

When search is started at the top of page, the found text and other lines around
it can be seen. When the search falls of the page, the only thing that is
visible, is the last line at the bottom of page. That's where the search stops,
if matches are found.

The problem is that no consequtive lines are visible.

In mailing lists' theaded pages as well as in other pages, it is desirable to be
able to see text before and after the found position. At current situation, the
page needs to be scrolled every time to see what would would follow - to be able
to determine if THIS is the location where I want to stop.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to top of page
2. Edit => Find in this page
3. Search any text that appears in page
4. The search is eventually positioned at the last line of page


Actual Results:  
No lines that would follow are visible.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78833 ***