268318 - Highlight on Findbar should have a "persistent" option (apply search to all tabs)

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, enhancement, P5)

Description

[kaeptn00]

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

It would be nice to have the highlight feature persistant over browsing through
a site. It'll help to find a specific term in manuals and such.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter search term
2. Activate highlight
3. Browse to another page

Actual Results:  
"Highlight" goes off

Expected Results:  
With the "persistant" option the browser would "automagicaly" search for the
term without jumping to it but highlighting every occurance on the page.

Comment 1

[Mugros]

This is similar to the enhancement i suggested:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266538
I would like to see Highlight as always enabled, but i prefer that the search is
diabled if i browse to another page. So there is no need to disable the search.

Comment 2

[Daniel Wang]

*** Bug 275272 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

I vote for wontfix. This should be done by an extension.

Comment 5

[(no longer active)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I vote for wontfix. This should be done by an extension.
> 

The find bar shows two options:

 * Case-sensitivity
 * Result highlighting

The former is persisted, while the latter is not.  I think this bug should be fixed.

Comment 7

[jwms]

>I vote for wontfix. This should be done by an extension.

There's no longer a way to make an extension that can persist a search bar across multiple tabs and search across all tabs.  I have 8 tabs open right now where I'm trying to do some product comparison.  It would be great to be able to search for certain features amongst all of the tabs so I know which to eliminate.

>I prefer that the search is disabled if i browse to another page. So there is no need to disable the search.

How about a checkbox on the search bar that lets you make it stick when you want it to?  That's an obvious solution.

Comment 8

[Wayne Sallee]

(In reply to jwms from comment #7)

How about a checkbox on the search bar that lets you make it stick when you
want it to? That's an obvious solution.

So true. It should be so simple to add this function so that we can have this ability again. Having to hit cntrl F on each tab slows down searching so much.

Wayne Sallee
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