296015 - FAYT: requires insanely fast typing of the complete string.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Livin Stephen Sharma]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

for example:
 If u r searching for "chords", and are typing in (at a moderate speed) C - H -
O - R - D - S, and have finished entering "chor", FAYT searches not for the
STRING typed in so far ('chor'), but for the last ALPHABET ('r').

The time-interval before typing ends and a NEW search begins (when typing
resumes) seems to disappear.


Mostly, restarting firefox solves the problem.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1.enable FAYT
2.search for a multi-character string by typing it in.
3.

Actual Results:  
individual characters (last one entered) were searched for even though the
complete string was entered in one go.

Expected Results:  
all the characters typed in should have incrementally been taken as the
search-string.

Comment 1

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Can't reproduce. How often is this reproducible, could you please provide more
detailed instructions, and check if you can reproduce this on one of Deer Park
releases. Thanks.

Comment 2

[Livin Stephen Sharma]

I've noticed that this behaviour appears only if you leave multiple instances of
Firefox running for a *long* time - say a couple of days. and as recently as 1.0.6.

As I said before, shutting down all instances, and restarting Firefox seems to
fix this.

I'll try the Deer Park release.

Comment 3

[John Collins]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I've noticed that this behaviour appears only if you leave multiple instances of
> Firefox running for a *long* time - say a couple of days. and as recently as
1.0.6.
> 
> As I said before, shutting down all instances, and restarting Firefox seems to
> fix this.


you think this might be memory related? check your memory usage when you notice
this happening...

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter, is this still happening in Firefox 1.5 ?

Comment 5

[Livin Stephen Sharma]

No, I haven't seen this in the newer releases. I have switched
operating systems since, though. I use OS X now.

Comment 6

[Jo Hermans]

ok