271905 - while selecting text (mouse button still down), pressing any key starts find-as-you-type

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect, P5)

Description

[jedik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; cs-CZ; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; cs-CZ; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

Its has one condition: There must be enabled option(I dont know exact english
translation for menu items so Ill translate it from czech ): Options -> Other ->
Simplification -> Select text on page while typing

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. selecting text w/ mouse
2. while holding the mouse button press any key

Actual Results:  
selected text change its color to highlight color(default green)

Expected Results:  
Selected text should stay as it is. In one selection color.

Comment 1

[Snala]

This is an option to help you find "words" or other text on the page.  I can not
get firefox to reproduce it on my build (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT
5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041126) But I can not find the option to select
text on page while typing.  But it is reproducable on Mozilla so I am aware of
what you are talking about.

A feature not a bug.  If you don't like it then dont enable it. ^^

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Mike Caines]

Can confirm this with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b5)
Gecko/20050926 Firefox/1.4.

Comment 4

[Daniel Wang]

reporter (jedik), what is this bug about? that find-as-you-type should not start
when text is selected, or that it shouldn't start when the mouse button is still
down?

Comment 5

[jedik]

(In reply to comment #4)
> reporter (jedik), what is this bug about? that find-as-you-type should not start
> when text is selected, or that it shouldn't start when the mouse button is still
> down?

No no :) Follow this(with find-as-you-type option enabled):
1, Read some text on the page
2, Mark some fragment of the text with mouse and STILL HOLD THE MOUSE BUTTON AND
DONT MOVE WITH THE MOUSE -> background color of selection is some system
color(eg. red)
3, With your second hand type some text
4, FF(Moz) start to find typed text on the page AND THEN....
5, MOVE WITH THE MOUSE(still holding mouse button) and background color of
marked text IS NOW SET to the same color you can see while you are using
find-as-you-type function (eg light green)

I know its not big crashing bug :) Its only cosmetics.

Comment 6

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

jedik, can you still reproduce this with Firefox 2.0.0.3 or later (or on the trunk for that matter)? I'm unable to do so on Windows XP. Also, does this happen with a new profile? Seems like it might depend on the value of accessibility.typeaheadfind.autostart.

Comment 7

[jedik]

(In reply to comment #6)
> jedik, can you still reproduce this with Firefox 2.0.0.3 or later (or on the
> trunk for that matter)? I'm unable to do so on Windows XP. Also, does this
> happen with a new profile? Seems like it might depend on the value of
> accessibility.typeaheadfind.autostart.
> 

Yes, I'm can still reproduce it on FF 2.0.3.
accessibility.typeaheadfind.autostart is set to True.
Also I have WinXP(SP2)

And it's surely not problem of my local installation, because since I've committed this bug I do some new installations of FF on various computers and the "problem" remains in all versions till now.

Comment 8

[Kevin Brosnan]

WorksForMe - Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a5pre) Gecko/20070528 Minefield/3.0a5pre

Comment 9

[Paul Simon]

This issue is still present in

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110427 Firefox/6.0a1

Comment 10

[Mike de Boer [:mikedeboer]]

Confirmed with the following STR:

1. Start selecting text on this page, don't release the left mouse button.
2. While holding the mouse button down, press the Find/ Quickfind keyboard shortcut to open the findbar.
3. While holding the mouse button down, type a character in the input box - which has focus automatically.
4. Start moving the mouse to change the selection and notice it will be green - the color of the find selection.