259842 - find no longer searches in textareas

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 252371

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Mark Harmstone]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/1.0PR StumbleUpon/1.992
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/1.a0PR StumbleUpon/1.992

On version 0.9, find as you type searched in textareas. However, in version
1.0PR, it no longer works. This is a shame, because it didn't work in 0.8
either, and it is a genuinely useful feature for Wikipedia and the like.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to page with filled textarea.
2. Search for text.

Actual Results:  
Text not selected.

Expected Results:  
Text selected in textbox as normal.

Comment 1

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

Probably a duplicate of bug 252371, see bug 252371, comment 15.

Comment 2

[Stefan van den Oord]

I can confirm this on the Mac. It's really annoying that this doesn't work
anymore. Incredible how quickly you get used to it. :-)

I'm not sure if it's indeed a duplicate of the mentioned bug, because searching
in text areas doesn't work even with "find as you type" turned off...

Comment 3

[José Jeria]

That bug is not only about not finding things with fayt, also a regular search,
please reopen if you disagree.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 252371 ***