281534 - Typeahead find should give number of matches in find toolbar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 257061

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, enhancement)

Description

[Joshua Goldberg]

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

Using typeahead find with the new toolbar, I'd like to be able to see the number
of matches in the page.  Currently on a long page, I find I C-g again and again,
looking at the scrollbar to give myself an approximate sense of how many matches
(and where they are).  

Additionally, it could be nice (although I'm not sure how much I'd make use of
this latter cue) to see *which* match is presently selected (e.g., 4/20, with
the 4 incrementing on every C-g)


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

I know we don't like preferences, but can I vote against this bloat of 
a quick and simple feature (or make it a preference). If you want to 
look at 4/20 rather than the page then can we have this in a floating 
window with all search features.

The typeahead find should be as simple as the last line mode in vim.

Tap the '/' key and go.

You really only need additional information if the string is not found.

Usually if you are searching within a page, you want the search operation
to centre it on a single point of interest; not a forme fruste of a
'find all'

Comment 2

[Joshua Goldberg]

I see your point, and it's true that I want to center on one point of interest.
 I was surprised when firefox introduced the toolbar with those big buttons,
myself.  

It's not find all that I need, though.  I want help *finding* the right place in
the document.  (Like you said, you only need additional info. when the string is
not found. -- I'm talking about the situation where firefox finds strings, but
I'm still looking for the information I want.)

In long documents, I find my practice is to hit C-g rapidly to see if the right
thing pops out.  Often I'll realize after a while that I've wrapped around 
without having noticed (or that I'm not sure if I've wrapped).  Once I've
realized this, I'll C-g my way through once or twice more,staring at the
scrollbar to see how many "hits" there were, at which point I have a better idea
of how carefully to look and whether I'm likely to find what I'm looking for at
all. I want to skip that step.

At any rate, I don't think a number or a ratio in plain text at the right hand
side of the already extant toolbar would clutter, and I would never want to go
back to a floating window!

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 257061 ***