286851 - Find should focus results in middle of window, not bottom

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 171237

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, enhancement)

Description

[Justin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When using Find Toolbar to find a word, pressing the next button focuses on the
next word, but the word appears at the bottom of the screen, which oftern means
one has to scroll a few more lines to understand the context. It also just feels
unnatural.

Focusing the results in the middle of the screen, when possible, would be much
better.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the "Find" toolbar
2. Type in word
3. Press "Find next"
Actual Results:  
Page scrolls down only enough to just see selected result, which usually means
it's at the bottom of the screen

Expected Results:  
Page should scroll to show selected result in middle of the screen when possible

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

I have noticed this as well. Is it a 'GOOD FIRST BUG', with an easy path way to
a fix? If so I will do it now.

Comment 2

[Elmar Ludwig]

*** Bug 287435 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Daniel C]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050329 Firefox/1.0+

(In reply to comment #0)

Status -> NEW

IMO the page should scroll down until the highlighted word is centered
vertically (or as far as possible if the bottom of the page is reached. The same
should apply when searching upwards through the page.

Comment 4

[FZiegler]

This is especially desirable on Apple laptops, because everyone there navigates with

  page down = space bar
  page up   = shift + space bar

because Apple's brain-damaged

  page down = fn + downarrow
  page up   = fn + uparrow

require both hands (fn and arrow keys are at opposite ends of the keyboard). 
Now after virtually every Firefox search, I want to navigate for context but end
up typing spaces into the search field!

(Please, someone tell me if there a pref to restore Mozilla's [and every other
program's...] modal search dialog?)

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 171237 ***