318184 - Find toolbar does not always follow tab focus

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 270546

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Paul Fisher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

After opening several tabs, the find toolbar will often find what was on the previous (or before) tab that was open.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open several tabs, each containing a lot of text. For instance, http://alistapart.com/ , http://mozilla.org/ , and a few others.
2. Pick a phrase that you know is in one of the tabs (for instance, "search ALA" on the A List Apart tab), open that tab, and try to find the text.
3. If it works as expected, then try to find different text on another tab.
4. If that fails, then try to find the same on another tab, or some item of text that you know appears in only one tab. Go through your tab bar to see which tab it searched.
Actual Results:  
Occasionally, the first or previous tab will be searched, and occasionally it seems that no tab will be searched (one that you've closed?). Either way, the find is usually performed in a nonexistent or an alternate tab.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should have found the requested text in the focussed tab.

Comment 1

[Paul Fisher]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 270546 ***