334474 - Typeafead find timeout inconsistency between different invocation mechanisms

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 256420

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Marius van Wyk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060328 Firefox/1.5.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060328 Firefox/1.5.0.2

The about:config specified typeahead find timout settings are not honoured when invoked by typing the '/' character (It still times out after 5 seconds) as it is when starting find using Apple-F.

Both bring up the find status bar at the bottom and work in the same way, except that after using a '/' the bar goes away after 5 seconds which is anoying when you are searching through large documents (using the Find Next).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set timeout period in about:config not to timeout at all (2 settings)
2. Apple-F seems to honour these settings
3. '/' does not

Actual Results:  
After using '/' the find bar disapears after 5 seconds if not used constantly.

Expected Results:  
The Find bar at the bottom should never go away.

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop] (PTO until Aug 21st)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 256420 ***