290106 - Find as you type does not respect which frame has the focus.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 254722

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Marty Klos]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

In using Firefox to navigate a window with frames, it should be possible move
the current 'find as you type' position by clicking in the text with the mouse.
 All subsequent searches should begin at this point.
Good example: In the URL given, find as you type always searches sequentially
starting from the top-left frame.  


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1 Open the URL given.
2 Type Ctrl+F and type 'component'. 
3 Press Enter until the word 'Component' is highlighted in the lower-left frame.
4 Click on this with the mouse.  The right-most frame updates.  
5 Click in the right frame to move the caret.  
6 Type Enter to search for an occurence of the word 'component'. 
7 The next item found is not in the right frame but in the lower left frame.

Actual Results:  
In this case there are at least 30 occurences of this word in the lower-left
frame and more than 50 in the right frame.  The sequential nature of the 'find
as you type' makes it practically useless in this context. 

Expected Results:  
The 'find as you type' position should track the selection to allow the user to
localize the search position.  The behavior does not match the standard find
behavior of past browsers.
It could be argued that this is a feature request not a bug, but for my needs,
it works so bad that I need to disable the feature.

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 254722 ***

Comment 2

[Jon Edvardsson]

I don't agree this is a duplicate of Bug 254722. This bug asks for improvments on where "Find as you type" should start searching. I could not agree with the author of the initial bug report more. FastFind should start searching in the frame that has focus.

Browsing e.g. the Java API using FastFind is far from effecient if this is not improved. There should be a way to select starting point of search, for instance by clicking the mouse or keyboard.