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Bug 259725
Opened 20 years ago
Updated 2 years ago
No alert for end of page using Find as you Type when search toolbar not visible / hidden / disappears
Categories
(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, enhancement, P5)
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(Reporter: kbrosnan, Unassigned)
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(Blocks 1 open bug)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Search for foo where foo can be found multiple times in a page, let the search
bar disappear. Hit F3 to search repeatedly until you go back to the top of the page.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable FAYT
2. type foo
3. Wait for the search bar to disapear
4. hit F3 repeatedly until you get back to the top of the page that you are
searching
Actual Results:
No note is displayed alerting the user that they have searched the entire
document such as "reached end of page, continued from top".
Expected Results:
Some sort of notification that the entire page has been searched.
Comment 1•20 years ago
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It is not a bug but it really is in need of an enhancement request. (You better
change Severity to "enhancement".)
Even if the search bar is still open the additional icon and the text "Reached
end of page, continued from top" is easily overlooked. You have to monitor the
search bar to know when the search wrapped around!
(BTW: People who use 640 by 480 resolution will not see the full message anyway.
My computer showed only "Reached end of pag" when I did an accessibility test.)
In Mozilla by default the "Wrap around" is not selected and you will get a
message box when you try to search beyond the end of the page.
If you select "Wrap around" in Mozilla it will behave like Fx, that is no
message box will appear when the search wraps around.
Basic fix: Introduce the "Wrap around" option into Fx search and leave it
unchecked by default. When the end of the page is reached a message box should
alert the user. The message box has only one "Ok" button.
>Expected Results:
>Some sort of notification that the entire page has been searched.
"..entire page has been searched" needs some special consideration:
What if the search was started in the middle of the page? What if the page
hasn't even fully loaded and the search wraps around?
Another way: Microsoft Word wraps around silently the end of the document but
will stop when you reach the starting point of your search with a message box
"Word has finished searching the document". But I understand Word documents are
more static than a webpage still loading.
Updated•20 years ago
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Severity: minor → enhancement
Comment 2•19 years ago
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*** Bug 316497 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Updated•19 years ago
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QA Contact: fast.find
Updated•18 years ago
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Assignee: bross2 → nobody
Assignee | ||
Updated•17 years ago
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Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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Updated•11 years ago
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OS: Windows XP → All
Summary: No alert for end of page using Find as you Type when search toolbar disapears → No alert for end of page using Find as you Type when search toolbar not visible / hidden / disappears
Updated•9 years ago
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Priority: -- → P5
Updated•2 years ago
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Severity: normal → S3
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