Open Bug 325234 Opened 19 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Auto hide search bar after a period of inactivity

Categories

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, enhancement, P5)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Find Toolbar
Type:
enhancement

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(Reporter: bugzilla.mozilla.org, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

The search bar should automatically hide itself after a specified time of inactivity. Possibly 30 seconds. 

This should not be a user preference, but a logical default.

Reproducible: Always
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060129 Firefox/1.6a1 ID:2006012914
It does.
Use find as you type. edit -> preferences -> advanced -> find as you type. It hides the find bar after a period of inactivity.
I think this is a valid request. If envoked in FAYT mode (via typing or with ' or /), the findbar should timeout according to accessibility.typeaheadfind.timeout (but it doesn't). Having a timeout time if envoked in find mode (via ctrl+f) seems reasonable to me.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Priority: -- → P5
Type: defect → enhancement
Severity: normal → S3
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