401696 - Real time display of searched criteria

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

Real time display of searched criteria. Using two colors it would be very effective to give feedback on searched criteria. 

For example if the search box turns red it means the word was not found.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

Since this was originally filed against SeaMonkey, I'm not sure if this is referring to find-in-page or web search. If it's web search, I don't think we want to resolve search queries in addition to suggestions and the search engines often provide helpful things like spelling corrections/homonyms/etc after executing a search. I believe discouraging users from reaching that step is not something we want to do.