259873 - find tool bar won't scroll the page to any matches

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 270546

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[jon moses]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040915 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040915 Firefox/0.10

When searching with the find toolbar (CTRL+F), the page will not scroll to any
results.  They're found, as they'll get highlighted, but the page never scrolls
to any results.

This is a major pain, as I have to turn highlighting on, scroll down the page,
turn highlighting off, then close the find tool bar.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. CTRL+F
2. Search for something on the page, but not visible
3.

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens

Expected Results:  
Scroll to first (or next) match.

Comment 1

[Jason LeBrun]

I have this problem as well.
Furthermore, the "Search as you type" feature does not work. 

Comment 2

[michal]

Are you using gentoo?

There appears to be a gentoo build issue with firefox-pre1.0
If you 

1) edit: /usr/portage/eclass/mozilla.eclass and remove 'typeaheadfind' from the
list in 'myext' and re-emerge firefox
then 
2) delete compreg.dat from the profile of every user

find should work properly.
(this is in gentoo's bug database).

Comment 3

[jon moses]

indeed I am using gentoo.  I'll give your fix a try.

Comment 4

[jon moses]

that defintely works very much better.  

so, it this a gentoo bug, or a mozilla/firefox bug that was exposed via how
gentoo does builds?

Comment 5

[michal]

Speaking with no actual knowledge, it appears to me as though 'typeaheadfind'
used to have to be enabled to be built in, but its now been incorporated in
1.0pre with the find toolbar.  So now you get into trouble if you try to enable
the old
typeaheadfind.  It looks as though there is a gentoo patch on its way, I would
say that the firefox configure should either no longer accept the typeaheadfind
option or at least ignore it.

Comment 6

[David Goodlad]

I have found the same issue on my linux from scratch system - built firefox by
hand using the instructions at
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/xsoft/firefox.html and cannot use
find features at all, except for highlighting.  It does not report whether or
not the phrase was found, either.

Comment 7

[David Sheldon]

I am also getting this problem. I am using Fedora Core II, and an RPM from DAG
(Dag Apt Repository, http://dag.wieers.com/apt/ - firefox-0.10-0.1.fc2.dag.src.rpm) 

"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040924 Firefox/0.10"

This does not appear to be a gentoo only bug.

Comment 8

[Dimitrios]

sounds identical to bug 270546

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 270546 ***