368846 - Find text in all open tabs/pages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 328613

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, enhancement)

Description

[paul.b]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Ubuntu-edgy)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20060601 Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Ubuntu-edgy)

This is a feature request to expand Find (or an advanced Find) to include a "search in all open tabs" option.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open web sites in many tabs
2. Find a text string that occurs in at least two of them
3. Search for text using find (C-f)
4. There is no option to find the text in more than one tab.



There should be an "advanced" or "all tabs" option under Ctrl-F.  From there, I should be able to press "next" to cycle through instances of the string, but continue on to the next tab at the bottom of the page (or maybe skip to the next tab with a "next tab" or something like that).  Firefox could also highlight tab titlebars in which the string was found if the option is selected, or could just highlight by default, and not (by default) display where in those tabs the search result is.

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Probably a dupe of bug 328613, which in turn is probably a dupe of something else.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Probably a dupe of bug 328613, which in turn is probably a dupe of something
> else.
yeah, not sure of what though.