266825 - Find Toolbar can obscure matching results

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Jesse Barros]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1

In certain situations, the Find Toolbar can pop up over the results it finds,
making it impossible to see what was found.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Navigate to http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl5_hosts.allow.htm
2. Type a single hash character ("#")
3. Observe that the Find Toolbar pops up over the first result.

4. Now, close the toolbar and type a slash followed by a hash ("/#").
5. Observe that the first result scrolls just above the find toolbar.

Actual Results:  
The find toolbar obscured the found hash character.

Expected Results:  
The page should be scrolled so the first match is above the find toolbar.

This is not bug 259873.  This is not bug 261937 either, but the two may be related.

It may be difficult to reproduce this bug due to the number of factors that can
affect page flow.  My computer is running Windows XP, with the non-themed
taskbar on the bottom of the screen, a resolution of 1024x768, and Firefox
maximized with the Winstripe theme.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Actually seems quite easy to reproduce: click in the text of your steps to
reproduce, to put the current position below the URL, scroll the word Expected
either to the bottom line of the screen or below, and type X. With FAYT, the
scroll into view must happen before the find bar is visible, instead of after
like it needs to be.

Comment 2

[Jesse Barros]

This appears to be working as expected now.  Closing.