269267 - Find searches in same frame regardless of with frame focus by user

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 263878

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Mark Luchini]

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

When using the fast find toolbar on sites using frames (such as the Java API
pages), the finder runs arbitrarily in some frame and continues to search
through that frame regardless of how the user attempts to change frame focus.

Specifically, i want to search an Java API for a class name, and the finder
starts  by running through the package frame.  I specifically click on the class
frame and click "find next" in the fast finder toolbar.  The finder continues in
it's origional frame oblivious of the fact I changed focus to another frame.

Desired behaviour:
By default the search should run in the frame that has focus.  If the user
changes frame focus the find should continue in the new frame at the focus point
that the user specified.  In the case where the user clicks somewhere in the
middle of a frame, that should be the start point for the search.

Wrapping around in the same frame or continuing on to another frame are
arbitrary decisions.  Ideally, this user would prefer that the find toolbar have
a button (possibly only for pages with frames) that displays whether entire page
wrapping or wrapping inside a frame will occur (like the highlighted button it
can be toggled at an arbitrary time).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a page with frames such as
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/index.html
2. click on one frame
3. ctrl-f
4. type text into the fast search toolbar
5. the text should autofind the first occurance, if not click the 'find next' button
6. click a frame that is not currently being searched
7. click 'find next' in the fast find toolbar
8. notice that the find continues in the first frame

Actual Results:  
8. notice that the find continues in the first frame


Expected Results:  
the find process will search in the new frame forward from the point that
received focus.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 263878 ***