263447 - Highlighted search terms should be centered vertically in the browser window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 171237

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, enhancement)

Description

[Nathan Howell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041005 Firefox/0.10.1 (Ubuntu)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041005 Firefox/0.10.1 (Ubuntu)

Highlighted search terms that must be scrolled to during the search are
currently at the very bottom of the window. This makes it difficult to see the
context of the search result, necessitating a quick scroll to see more text
around the result. Scrolling so that the current search term is vertically
centered would be much friendlier.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Search for a term on a long page that you know appears off screen
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
When the term is highlighted and scrolled to, it is at the bottom of the screen,
forcing the user to scroll to see context.

Expected Results:  
The current search term should be vertically centered.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

seamonkey bug 78833

Comment 2

[Brian W. Carver]

1. Firefox's find is one of the best find features in any piece of software. If
you add this enhancement it will be truly amazing. Please do so.

2. You might also consider a user-configurable sound (BING!) each time it wraps
around, because sometimes one can miss the text that appears indicating a wrap
has occurred. 

3. This accidental-wrap issue could also be handled with a "Wrap?" checkbox on
the find bar (like the "Match case" one) that would default to being checked,
but that could be turned off with a click.

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

*** Bug 303431 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

See also bug 270124.

Comment 5

[Daniel Wang]

the search term match should not be at the center of the screen because it would
be more difficult to spot. The match should be at a predictable position.
Anyway, duping to bug 171237 and let the developer decide what's the better position

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 171237 ***