270294 - find bar "Find Next" , "Find Previous" buttons do nothing

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Chris Beck]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041109 Firefox/1.0

When I launch the find bar with Ctrl-F and enter text in the text box then click
onf Find Next or Find Previous , nothing happens.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load any page with text on it
2. Ctrl-F
3. Type text that appears on the page in the text box
4. Click Find Next or Find Previous

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens

Expected Results:  
The next/previous instance of the word should be highlighted and if it is
off-screen then the screen should scroll

This happens in a plain vanilla profile with no extensions.

Comment 1

[Clint Olsen]

(In reply to comment #0)
> 1. Load any page with text on it
> 2. Ctrl-F
> 3. Type text that appears on the page in the text box
> 4. Click Find Next or Find Previous

I had a similar experience on my 1.0 version on FreeBSD, and one of other users
on the ports list suggested I delete my .mozilla directory, and this did end up
rectifying the situation for me.  Make sure you save off any important bookmarks
somewhere of course...

Comment 2

[Chris Beck]

The problem is no longer present in 20041205 (it now works in both windows and
linux)

Comment 3

[Kevin Brosnan]

Reporter states the the problem is resolved WFM.