269516 - There must be an option to enable/disable "find as you type" for specific sites

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Tuncay Baskan]

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

Firefox should give the user an option for sites that provide shortcuts for
common actions. A very good example is gmail, http://gmail.google.com/gmail.
Gmail allows user to use shortcuts for common operations, e.g., when you press
'c' it goes to Compose page, for 'C' it opens a new window for composing etc.

These shortcuts and Firefox's type ahead find feature sometimes get mixed. You
press the shortcut key 'c' for composing, Firefox does find, or it does find but
also gmail's JS code gets the shortcut and goes to compose page, or Firefox
doesn't make a find operation and gmail's shortcut handler works.

IMHO, the best solution for this providing an option for the user to
enable/disable this find feature for specific sites, as for allowing popups for
specific sites.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log in to gmail
2. Type 'c'


Actual Results:  
Type ahead find activated.

Expected Results:  
Browser should run Gmail's JS code for go forward to the compose page.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

Web sites can and should use event.preventDefault() to prevent FAYT from
handling keystrokes the web site has already handled.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Tuncay Baskan]

So the problem is with Gmail and 99% of the web sites (those using shortcuts of
course), not Firefox?

Comment 4

[u63580]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051228 Firefox/1.6a1


FAYT is now off by default (I think).  Options -> Advanced -> General -> Begin find...  Does this resolve this problem?

Comment 5

[Donna]

I have read all the comments from people using Mozilla and your Mozilla employees.  I would think if one person complained that would be enough to put an option to turn the find option off somehow.  How many people have to complain to get an option to turn it off added??  Cause I know several who would like this option.   We complain daily and more than once daily about it.  We host tournaments with this browser and it messes up our keytext program frequently which messes up our tournaments.  Our solution, find another browser.  Had I known this little area existed would have done sent them over here.  So tell me how many complaints that you need to get an option to turn find off and will have them head over here and complain.    Thanks

Comment 6

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Confirming as a valid RFE, CCing myk, and recommending WONTFIX. :)