430622 - "Find" shows incorrect match

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Vijay Bhaskar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032620 Firefox/3.0b5

When the given page is opened in Mozilla Firefox and then a search is made for word "email" (without quotes) on this page, the first occurence is incorrect.

This problem can be observed in both Firefox 2.0.0.14 and Firefox 3 beta 5.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to the URL: http://www.actionscript.org/resources/categories/Tutorials/
2.In the webpage, search for "email" [without quotes].

Actual Results:  
Firefox shows the search word email formed from "e" in Search Sit"e" and "mail" in "Mail"ing List on this webpage.

Expected Results:  
FF should not consider the combination of different words like that in search result.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

The two links are adjacent in the DOM.  IMO, this is a site bug, because having them adjacent is likely to confuse text browsers, search engines, accessibility technology, etc.

<a href="http://www.actionscript.org/resources/search/advanced">Search site</a><a href="http://www.actionscript.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/list/general/">Mailing list</a>

Comment 3

[Mike de Boer [:mikedeboer]]

As per comment 1.