385501 - Option to force findbar to not search before user signal.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 348187

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, enhancement)

Description

[mozbug]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070607 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070607 Firefox/2.0.0.4

Since the new searchbar is in (which does beat a popup window, yes), it has
started searching from the first character entered, even if typeahead and all
the other options I could find were turned off.

I would very much like an option to force the searchbar to only start searching
after I'm done entering text to search for. Especially with long pages (say, the
FreeBSD handbook in one page) in slow environments (say, an old 366MHz laptop,
or some remote X setup) this would stop slowing the process of user inputting
text to a very slow crawl.

So, the sequence I want is:
1. open up searchbar
2. enter text (browser does nothing else yet)
3. hit enter or button 'search'
4. browser presents first search result, if any

AFAIK there is no option to always force this particular behaviour, yet.


Reproducible: Always




Searching for `search' got me one bug (fixed) for the new search engine.
I figure may as well open one to get this feature request in.

For a bonus: a switch to take the input as regex (`a la less or nvi).
Set as feature request altough `slowing to a crawl' is arguably a bug to be fixed.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

It should be accessibility.typeaheadfind.autostart (in about:config), but apparently it doesn't work, see bug 348187.

Note: it's actually called the find-bar (Find when you press ctrl-F, QuickFind when you press /). Search-bar is the field in the top right that searches in Google and other search engines.