260562 - accessibility.typeaheadfind.enabletimeout is ignored

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

Description

[TGOS]

Find as you type doesn't work on Macs. The new, cute search bar on the bottem
immediately goes away after I typed only one letter and the next letter
immidiately starts a new search, no matter how fast I type.

I set accessibility.typeaheadfind.enabletimeout to false, so it should stay
there forever, but it goes away immediately

Comment 1

[TGOS]

Oh, my current browser version, of course:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040919
Firefox/0.10

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

Works for me in build 20040920 (branch)

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040920
Firefox/0.10

Comment 3

[TGOS]

Jo, can you do me a favor?
Can you open a new tab and enter "about:config" as address. Then please enter
"typea" into the filter line.

Some lines will be left over. Can you please post all the settings left over
here? I'd like to compare them to my settings. Maybe this explains why it works
for you but not for me. Maybe it's a setting problem.

But then it's still a bug IMHO. No setting should cause such an incorrect behavior.

Comment 4

[TGOS]

Okay, I made some tests myself. The problem is, that 

accessibility.typeaheadfind.enabletimeout

is ignored on the Mac (or it is ignored in general. Have to test it under
Windows this evening).

The setting

accessibility.typeaheadfind.timeout

was set to 0 in my config; this was the way how to disable timout in earlier
versions. But now 0 really means a timeout of 0, so it times out at once.

May I suggest a solution for this problem?

A timeout of 0 should still be treated as "no-timeout", since it makes no sense
to really have a timeout of 0.

And accessibility.typeaheadfind.enabletimeout should be honored when set to
false, regardless of timeout set.

Comment 5

[TGOS]

Confirmed in Windows (XP + SP2)
Assuming it applies to all platforms

Comment 6

[Michael Clackler]

this bug is fixed with the patch in bug 265915

Comment 7

[TGOS]

We can close it once the patch has been checked in and I can verify correct
behavior in one of the nightly builds

Comment 8

[Christoph Grether]

Confirmed. Running Windows XP Pro SP2, tested with Firefox 1.0.1 and latest
Trunk with clean profiles.

Comment 9

[Merome]

Same thing here (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr-FR; rv:1.7.6)
Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1)
Find as you type dialog box just appears a microsecond.
accessibility.typeaheadfind.timeout=5000
accessibility.typeaheadfind.enabletimeout=true

Note the Ctrl-F shortcut or menu action just works find : dialog box stay active
indefinitely

Comment 10

[Matt Day]

This is still broken in Firefox 1.5 RC3. The find bar disappears after 5 seconds even when accessibility.typeaheadfind.enabletimeout is false.

I'm running Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 on Windows XP SP2.

I did a clean install of Firefox 1.5 RC3, not an upgrade, no old preferences or settings.

Extensions I'm using: DOM Inspector, Talkback, Google Toolbar for Firefox

Workaround: Set accessibility.typeaheadfind.timeout to 999999999 and restart Firefox.

Comment 11

[u492095]

20/9/2004: please fix this bug!
Thank you!

Comment 12

[spillner]

Mike DeBoer correctly noted in a comment at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254592 that enabletimeout is no longer used and should be removed.  I updated the timeout logic to treat a zero or negative value as effectively "no automatic timeout" for the quick-find dialog (otherwise, setting the timeout value to a small or negative value makes the feature unusable).

This is a corollary to the bugfix at https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D3404 ; I've split it out into a separate patch to avoid confusing that issue.

Update: this specific issue already had its own bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260562, and another mention at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265915 .

Comment 13

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

Comment on attachment 9001904 [details]
Remove obsolete accessibility.typeaheadfind.enabletimeout preference.

Kris Maglione [:kmag] has approved the revision.

Comment 14

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=4dbfc1aba4822d0784ef9d31ac289b98fb3c1ebf

Comment 15

[Cosmin Sabou [:CosminS]]

With Diff 8711 on Sat, August 18, 2018, 1:25 AM GMT+3, by [e-mail].
Error: We're sorry, Autoland could not rebase your commits for you automatically. Please manually rebase your commits and try again. (255, 'applying /tmp/tmpmwiPga\npatching file toolkit/content/widgets/findbar.xml\nHunk #1 succeeded at 335 with fuzz 2 (offset -3 lines).\nHunk #2 FAILED at 373\n1 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file toolkit/content/widgets/findbar.xml.rej\nabort: patch failed to apply', '')

Comment 16

[spillner]

(In reply to Cosmin Sabou [:CosminS] from comment #15)

Rebased, should succeed now.

Comment 17

[Kris Maglione [:kmag]]

(In reply to spillner from comment #16)
> (In reply to Cosmin Sabou [:CosminS] from comment #15)
> 
> Rebased, should succeed now.

In the future, please add the checkin-needed keyword when something is ready to land :)

Comment 18

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/f4f56776a112
Remove obsolete accessibility.typeaheadfind.enabletimeout preference. r=kmag

Comment 19

[Raul Gurzau (:RaulGurzau)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/f4f56776a112