267633 - Find bar searches for previously entered query if no new query entered

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect, P5)

Description

[Richard Thomas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2

When the search bar is used brought up using the "/" keyboard shortcut
_for_a_second_time_, pressing the "Find Next" and "Find Previous" buttons will
search for the search term that was searched for the previous time, even though
the "Find:" textbox is empty.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a website with some text in it.
2. Press "/" to bring up the find bar
3. Type in some text in the "Find:" box - the corresponding text will be
highlighted.
4. Click back on the main page, the find bar will disappear.
5. Press "/" to bring up the find bar - the "Find:" box will be empty.
6. Press "Find Next" or "Find Previous"

Actual Results:  
The find bar will highlight the text found in step 3, even though the "Find:"
box is empty.

Expected Results:  
Found nothing - the "Find:" box is empty.

Comment 1

[Michael Clackler]

duplicate of bug 251989?

Comment 2

[Graeme McCutcheon [:graememcc]]

Can this get resolved? Don't have a bug# to attribute it to, but looks like this got fixed long ago.

Since bug 337654 landed, quick find no longer has find next/previous buttons, and I don't see the behaviour substituting step 6 of the STR with F3/Ctrl-G/Ctrl-Shift-G.