309638 - Search when start typing doesnt find words, edit find does.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Jamison]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

If search when start typing is enabled, even if they word being typed is on the
page the search bar will not find it.... howeve if i goto edit find, and type
the word then, it will find it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start typing to search.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Nothing found, unless using edit find.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050922
Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2005092205

WFM in trunk and branch.

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

Please provide an example url and a word that is not found

Comment 3

[Stephan Strittmatter]

I have the same problem.

Try following url to reproduce:
http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/manual/anttask.html
Seachword: jvmargs (it occures nearly at the end of the page)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908
Firefox/1.4 ID:2005090806

Comment 4

[Chris Hayes]

Half confirm on WINXP FF beta 2 build 2005100614: the proposed search above
worked good for me. 

However I encountered this problem too, several times. For instance 
http://www.projects1.com/firefox/exthacks/FFnightlyextensions.html, even after
clicking randomly in the page and trying words that I could clearly see, I would
just see the letters I typed in the Find As You Type box, but the textbox
background remained white, and the page neither highlighted words nor scrolled
to a searchword.
I could keep typing until the word would not exist, it just did not matter. 

BUT.
What is confusing is that now I am typing this and I go back to that tab, it
DOES find words as it should.
I also tried reloading and other pages on the same site, worked fine.

Comment 5

[Brett Zamir]

I have the same problem, and it occurs intermittently for me also (though I'm on Mac OSX if that makes a difference). When I have the problem for a prolonged period, I am able to fix it by:

1) moving all of my extension folders (but not files like extensions.rdf--I don't know if this is important or not, but I am nervous deleting anything that didn't belong to an extension)temporarily to another directory when Firefox is closed. 
2) Open Firefox fully (it will recreate the extension folders then remove them)
3) Close Firefox
4) Add the extension folders back to the extensions directory

For whatever reason, this always and reliably fixes the problem for me. 

Comment 6

[Xoctor]

I have the same problem too (running 1.5 on XP sp2). It is intermittent, but regular.

Comment 7

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with Firefox 2.0? If not, can you
please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 8

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Closing this bug as WORKSFORME since this works for me. If you can reproduce this using Firefox 2.0.0.4 or later with a clean profile, please comment with details.

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