Closed Bug 261138 Opened 20 years ago Closed 19 years ago

fastfind/find as you type - lag after phrase not found

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(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED EXPIRED

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(Reporter: altruist, Assigned: bugzilla)

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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

The Fastfind/Find As You Type lags/slows down very significantly while typing a
search string prefix that isn't found (giving the message "phrase not found"). 

For example, if I typed in /aiudfshf, and the page didn't have any words
starting with 'ai', the remaining characters 'udfshf' would appear one at a
time, and very slowly. I would assume this is because it searches the page every
time I type an additional character.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a page with a good deal of text content.
2. Fastfind a long string that does not appear on the page, such as random
characters.


Actual Results:  
Your characters should appear slowly, with a delay inbetween each character that
does not appear. During this time, you must wait for the various delays to
finish before you can type in another string or cancel your search.

Expected Results:  
To prevent further searches on the page until the non-found prefix is deleted,
or a regex special character is in the user input.

This is a nuisance because if a page doesn't contain the prefix of the string,
it will not contain the full string. A solution would be to ignore further
continuing searches from user input until the non-found prefix is deleted, or a
regex special character is in the user input.

The current workaround would be to type in a search string one character at a
time and wait for it to search. However this would significantly reduce the time
it takes to search and consequently the effectiveness of this feature.

search keywords: lag slow delay slowness fastfind find as you type
*** Bug 261139 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922
Firefox/0.10

WFM
Sorry:

Apparently firefox has problems when playing a sound on my computer, resulting
in a freeze. I'm not sure exactly what this is related to, but I'd say it's an
entirely different bug altogether. I didn't notice this because I usually don't
have sound on.

Anyway setting 'accessibility.typeaheadfind.enablesound' to false fixes this
problem. Moreover, bug #252420 has been patched, fixing multiple notifications
which greatly reduces the severity of the bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 252420 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
I've just checked, apparently this bug still exists. The bug that was bothering
me was related to firefox having problems playing sounds, but this problem still
appears on very large pages.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago19 years ago
Resolution: --- → EXPIRED
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
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