Open Bug 268318 Opened 21 years ago Updated 3 years ago

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

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(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, enhancement, P5)

x86
Windows XP
enhancement

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(Reporter: kaeptn00, Unassigned)

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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.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Summary: Highlight on Findbar should have a "persistant" option → Highlight on Findbar should have a "persistent" option
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.
*** Bug 275272 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I vote for wontfix. This should be done by an extension.
Summary: Highlight on Findbar should have a "persistent" option → Highlight on Findbar should have a "persistent" option (apply search to all tabs)
QA Contact: fast.find
Assignee: bross2 → nobody
(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.
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Priority: -- → P5
>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.

(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
Wayne@WayneSallee.com

Severity: normal → S3
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