465144 - Find on page should be integrated into search bar

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[stylusecho]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4

Find on page (Ctrl-F), should be integrated into the main search bar as a provider. The bar that appears all the way at the bottom is hard to spot at times, and not very accessible. When the Find on page 'provider' is selected, make the dropdown menu display NEXT, PREVIOUS, HIGHLIGHT ALL and MATCH CASE in a bar that appears just below the search bar. The close button then closes the bar and reverts the provider back to the previous provider and search text.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[stylusecho]

Attachment: Mockup of new Find on page interface

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Would be problematic for people who don't have the searchbar on their toolbar and use keyword searches from locationbar instead.

Comment 3

[stylusecho]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Would be problematic for people who don't have the searchbar on their toolbar
> and use keyword searches from locationbar instead.

How about if there's no search bar, fall back on the old Find on page.

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Alex, could you give any objections for this bug? I would tend to mark it as wontfix.

Comment 5

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

For future work the search bar will be migrated into the location bar. So I don't think this request is valid. Wontfix?