279679 - Find toolbar sometimes fails to find any phrases on the page

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 270546

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Thomas Rutter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050124 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050124 Firefox/1.0+

Sometimes when using the find toolbar, it will come up red and 'Phrase not
found' no matter what I type in - even if the phrase I type in is very obviously
on the page.

When this happens, it continues to happen for all searches done on that page. 
Often switching to a different tab and back will solve the problem and allow me
to do searches again.

It means that often when I get a 'Phrase not found' I have to double check by
putting in something I know is definitely on the page to see if it is the bug or
if the phrase really is not on the page.

Unfortunately it is intermittent, I can't really reproduce it always, sorry.  It
tends to happen when I have been using another application, then I switch to
Firefox and I press slash (/) to find something on the page.


Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press slash (/) to open the find toolbar.  If it doesn't work, click in the
page somewhere and press slash again.
2. Type any phrase or word on the page.



Actual Results:  
Text box becomes red and 'phrase not found' is displayed.

Expected Results:  
Phrase is found and highlighted as normal.

Comment 1

[Marc Randolph]

I've been having this problem on the 1.1 Trunk as well.  And as the original
reporter noted, it is intermittent, but it happens frequently enough that it is
not difficult to reproduce.  It is pretty annoying.

Comment 2

[Marc Randolph]

This is likely a dup of Bug 270546.

Comment 3

[Thomas Rutter]

(In reply to comment #2)
> This is likely a dup of Bug 270546.

Yes, I think it is.  I'll dup it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 270546 ***