439423 - Find does not wrap on some pages

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Todd Bowers]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080512 Camino/1.6.1 (like Firefox/2.0.0.14)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080512 Camino/1.6.1 (like Firefox/2.0.0.14)

Subsequent different 'Finds' should wrap around or begin from the top and find properly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Let's say that you first create and display an html page in the browser that contains the text '... bar ... foo ...'. Type cmd-f then the three characters 'foo' (in the find bar's find field) and it highlights 'foo' somewhere (beyond 'bar'). Great. Now backspace three times and type the three characters 'bar'.
Actual Results:  
It says 'Not found'.

Expected Results:  
I expected it to begin scanning for 'bar' at the beginning of the document (or to wrap around) and to find it. But, since 'bar' is before 'foo' it does not.

Comment 1

[Stuart Morgan]

I'm almost positive we already have a bug about wrapping not working reliably.

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Bug 258211 comment 48 mentions this exact issue (right?), but no follow-up bug was ever referenced there. (It appears the follow-up was bug 408533, which sounds somewhat different from this bug.)

(Some other maybe-related bugs I found while digging around: bug 173606, bug 264330, and bug 225296. All of those deal with FAYT, though.)

Comment 3

[Stuart Morgan]

If we don't have a bug on this already, confirming. I'll try to remember to give a URL of a page where this happens reliably the next time I see it.

Comment 4

[philippe (part-time)]

This page on the forums is an example of wrapping not happening (or getting stuck):
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=834415

With both FAYT and searching from the Find bar.

Comment 6

[John Pollock]

I'm using 2.0.4 (1.9.0.19 2010081818) and am suffering with this bug.  For me, it's not a situation where it works on some pages but not others; it *never* wraps back to the top when searching.  I'm also seeing the same behaviour reported in Bug 593065 (where the Find stops after the first match).  I had to switch away from Firefox owing to serious print problems, and I'm really liking Camino so far, but this find problem is a big one for me, as I rely a lot on it when doing legal research.