267868 - RC2: FAYT activates with the asterisk '*' key

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[u88484]

The FAYT activates when the apostrophe key is pressed on some sites but not
others. Reproduceable on mozillazine.org but not on yahoo.com. 

Steps:
1) Go to mozilla.org or mozillazine.org
2) Make sure the page was focus and not the address bar (left click in any white
space)
3) Press the apostrophe key by either shift+8 or just plain *

This bug might depend on BUG# 258285

Bug has been present before RC2 but I forgot to file a report until I seen a
post about this on mozillzine.org the other night.
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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103
Firefox/1.0RC2

Comment 1

[Ali Ebrahim]

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

I can't reproduce. On both mozilla.org and mozillazine.org, only / appears to
start FAYT. * does nothing.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Does this happen with characters other than asterisk?

Comment 3

[u88484]

Yes it does happen with characters other than asterisk such as and numbers. 

lol donno what i was thinking calling it an apostrophe.

Comment 4

[Ali Ebrahim]

But if I use ' instead of *, then I see what you're saying. The bugreport is
ambiguous on what character you're using.

On yahoo.com ' doesn't start FAYT, but rather starts typing in the search field.

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

Is Tools > Options > Advanced > Accessibility > "Begin finding when you begin
typing" checked?

Comment 6

[u88484]

i need sleep. sorry about opening this bug report, i realize this is what is
supposed to happen when 'Begin Finding when begin typing' is checked in the
options panel.

comment 4 i was just about to open a bug for that...yahoo search input box
steals focus...fayt wont activate