274673 - Find as you type will not work properly in manually opened tabs from third such tab on

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Voyager]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041214 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20041214 Firefox/1.0+

Type ahead find stops working properly from the third manually opened tab down.
 This does NOT count the home page (when the browser starts up).  It appears
that it still finds the items in the page, as evidenced by the fact when I click
"hilight" the search item is hilighted throughout the page.  But it does not
find (blue-hilight) as I type.  When the tabs are manually opened from inside
the browser, it won't give you the non-find color or sound, but if the tab was
opened by an external application (I only have experience with Thunderbird), the
items that are supposed to be found would not be and it would give the
impression that it can't be found by turning the color of the search bar to red.
 However, when I click hilight, it will find and hilight the items still.

The important part is *manually opened tabs.*  If the new tabs are opened from
links, it does not have a problem.  And it also does not happen until the THIRD
manually opened tab.  In other words, if you have your homepage open from a
fresh start, you will need to open 3 additional tabs manually (so total 4) to
see this.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open three or more tabs manually (ctrl+T)
2. Load sites in each tab.
3. On the last tab, try to find a text that you see on the page.
[4. Now, go to actual results, once you see that, come back and click hilight].

Actual Results:  
The first result is not hilighted in blue. (when you click the hilight button on
the seach bar, it will hilight the results)

Expected Results:  
It should find the first result and hilight it, and when I press F3, take me to
the next result.

The theme is irrelevent. I have tried it with the default theme, as well as
Littlefox and Microfirefox.  I would say that this should be a major bug as Find
as you type is a major feature in Firerfox.

Comment 1

[Juan Rey]

I have experienced the same issue

Comment 2

[Juan Rey]

I have experienced the same issue

Comment 3

[Marc Randolph]

Possibly related to Bug 270546?

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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