435158 - Quick Find missing buttons!

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 347261

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-CA; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-CA; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0

The Quick Find bar is missing the buttons Next, Previous, Highlight All, and the checkbox Match Case. I realize that this was a design decision of Firefox 2, but it defeats the whole purpose of Quick Find.

This problem is especially significant for anyone with 'find as you type' enabled. The point of enabling it is to have access to the find functions with the least amount of keys/clicks. Returning only the first result is useless in most cases. The only possible option of finding the next term (ctrl+g), while alleviating some of the previous problems, is still largely lacking. The only way to access Find Previous and Highlight All while in Quick Find is to press ctrl+f to open the full Find bar, which defeats the purpose of even having a quick find to begin with, since you'll have to press ctrl+f sooner or later.

While keeping in mind the discussion which led to the removal of the buttons, and those concerns, the solution is very simple:

There is absolutely no reason to have two separate find interfaces. The various shortcuts to access different interfaces is confusing, as well as the interfaces themselves. The shortcuts ctrl+g, ', and / should be removed. The only shortcut to access the Find feature should be ctrl+f, which loads the Find bar with all its buttons and no auto-close. If 'search as you type' is enabled, the act of typing should open up the Find bar, with the sole difference of having a timeout period after which it closes automatically. Call it Quick Find if you like, and the only way to activate it should be search as you type.

This should eliminate any confusions about the two current find bars, while preserving the functionality at the same time.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. enable search as you type
2. type somewhere outside an input box
Actual Results:  
no buttons, crippled functionality (since alt+p, alt+n, and alt+a shortcuts don't work when the buttons aren't there)

Expected Results:  
full functionality should be avaliable.