272742 - Find-as-you-type slow on large pages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 267885

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, enhancement)

Description

[jodavi]

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

I want ctrl-f to behave more like the old search dialogue, i.e. not
automatically or at least with a small delay.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.openbsd.org/3.6_packages/i386.html
2. Press ctrl-f to search
3. start typing

Actual Results:  
It takes way too long to enter the actual word i want because firefox has to do
a full search after every letter that i type, and the whole browser sometimes
locks up until the search completes.

Expected Results:  
searching with ctrl-f should not begin until i've stopped typing (timeout), or
pressed a button. Alternatively typing should not be blocked while searching is
in progress, and the rest of the browser should remain usable.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Maybe the suggestion in bug 267885 comment 2 would help ?

Comment 2

[jodavi]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Maybe the suggestion in bug 267885 comment 2 would help ?

Sounds like a great idea yes.

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 267885 ***

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 321892 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***