268305 - Quick Find bar disappears while using it (even if it's focused or has a context menu open)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Ori Avtalion (salty-horse)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Whenever the find-bar is invoked by FAYT, a timeout is set.
Even if the user right clicks on the text box to bring out a context menu, the
timeout does not go away, and the bar + context menu will disppear 'beneath the
user's cursor'.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:




The bug was spawned from #266822.

My suggestion:
Whenever the user interacts with a find toolbar that has a timer (one which was
invoked using
FAYT), disable it, and turn the toolbar into a regular CRTL+F one (gFindMode =
FIND_NORMAL in the findBar.js code).

Comment 1

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

->NEW

Comment 2

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

*** Bug 264436 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[wy2lam]

The behavior still persists in 1.5.

Auto-hiding the find bar after 5 seconds should be *configurable*.

I believe a lot of people wants the find bar to stay indefinitely until it is told to close.

Comment 4

[Adam Guthrie]

I actually think this is a WONTFIX. The Quick Find bar times out even if it's focused, so why should it remain open if it has a context menu open?

Comment 5

[Ori Avtalion (salty-horse)]

I have no objection to WONTFIX this.
I've grown accustomed to using ctrl+f to search something that I'd want to edit later, and find-as-you-type for "keyboard-assisted browsing".