258495 - find as you type only accepts one character in frames

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 185824

(SeaMonkey :: Find In Page, defect)

Description

[k b]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040906
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040906

there seems to be some problems with "type as you find".
quite often when i begin to type some link (or text after pressing '/') instead
if  adding a letter to the search string for every key press, find as you type
begins a new one letter search.

say i look for the word mozilla; then i whould type:
m   - mozilla responds Link found "m"
o   - mozilla responds Link found "mo"
z   - mozilla responds Link found "moz", and so on.

instead of this mozilla shows:
m   - mozilla responds Link found "m"
o   - mozilla responds Link found "o"
z   - mozilla responds Link found "z", and so on. this is wrong.


sometimes when this happens mozilla has selected one letter (marked the letter),
the same type of selection as if i would have selected some text for copying.
could this create the lock?


next thing:
find as you type often locks itself displaying "Find stopped", and then insead
of restarting upon type, it displays "Find stopped".


Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is already filed.

Comment 2

[k b]

comment 1, make it a duplicate.

this problem seems to occur most of the times when a web site contains frames.
it does not happen often if the site is frameless.

still problem in:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040916

Comment 3

[Frankie]

Same behavior in OSX, but only in certain pages. I can't find an example right
now though.

If this is a dupe, I didn't see it.

Comment 4

[k b]

with
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041001

i experience a lot less problems then before.
but it still happens sometimes. as the comment before me, i cannot give any
examples.

Comment 5

[Aaron Leventhal]

File a new bug if you get a reproducable testcase

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 185824 ***