259012 - Find Toolbar (FAYT) cleared by javascript

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 258917

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Kevin Hjelden]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040829 Firefox/0.9.1+ (MOOX M2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040829 Firefox/0.9.1+ (MOOX M2)

Entering text into the Find Toolbar on this website cause the search to perform
and then within a second the find toolbar clears and closes.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to website: http://www.annieduke.com/articles.php#annie-dukes-poker-articles
2. Type /omaha to load Find toolbar searching for omaha


Actual Results:  
Search for om happens, then bar is cleared and search for aha happens.

Expected Results:  
Searched for omaha.

This may be an evangalism bug because the website is terribly coded (there's
some sort of ticker that is invisible and prevents the first link from being
clicked on too. I appologize in advance if this is. I just think that there may
be a bug here  in allowing the search bar to clear like this though. Setting to
minor because hitting ctl-f and then searching works as expected.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041009
Firefox/0.10

confirming

->new

the findbar closes w/i a fraction of a second

Comment 2

[Blake Ross]

This seems like a symptom of a larger (worse) problem. All find toolbar does is
fire of a 5000ms timer to close the find bar if there's no activity. But it
looks like this page somehow forces the timer to fire prematurely? dbaron, any
ideas?

Comment 3

[Kevin Hjelden]

Seems like this code is the culprit (in http://www.annieduke.com/_js/scroller.js):


window.onresize = scrollerReload;

function scrollerReload() {

  // Reload page in case of a browser resize. First make sure it's a true
  // resize.

  if (isMinNS4 && origWidth == window.innerWidth && origHeight ==
window.innerHeight)
    return;
  window.location.href = window.location.href;
}


It seems that the site reloads the page when the window size is changed for some
reason. Perhaps should be moved to evangalism since other parts of their "dhtml"
doesn't work also? Or possibly should the find toolbar timer be extended by
5000ms after a page is reloaded? Sorry for not researching this more when I
posted it originally. I had seen this error before and wanted to post it before
I forgot again (didn't really have much time then).

Comment 4

[Kevin Hjelden]

sorry for posting a duplicate. didn't realize they were the same until the other
was was resolved and saw it on burning edge

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 258917 ***