483638 - "Find" or Ctrl+F or "/" does not bring up "Find" field.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ben Holmes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009012700 SUSE/3.0.6-0.1 Firefox/3.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009012700 SUSE/3.0.6-0.1 Firefox/3.0.6

I noticed on two machines that recently upgraded FireFox that the "Find" or Ctrl+F or "/" does not bring up "Find" field.

This happens regardless of which page is displayed or what may be in focus within the browser.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Browser.
2. Hit Edit>Find from the pull-down or hit Ctrl+F or hit "/" does not bring up "Find" field.
3. Closing all instances of the browser does not fix.
Actual Results:  
See #2

Expected Results:  
Would expect to see a search or find field. Does not happen.

Also, Help>About Mozilla Firefox from the pulldown is broken (nothing happens)

Also, the Help>Report Broken Website item from the pulldown generates a pop-up with the message "XML Parsing Error: undefined entity
Location: chrome://reporter/content/reportWizard.xul
Line Number 59, Column 18:    <description>&reportWizardPrivacy.description;</description>
-----------------^"

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

Please only one issue per report. This allows for approving and closing of issues without confusion.

1. Find works for me, Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021906 Firefox/3.0.7

Are you sure that a flash ad, video plugin or pdf plugin did not have focus. If so then that is a known issue.

2. Help -> about works for me

3. help -> report broken website works for me.

Please try the basic troubleshooting document to see if this resolves some of your issues. http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic+troubleshooting

Suse may preform customizations to Firefox that change some behaviors. This is in regards to issue 3, the reporter tool being broken.

Comment 2

[Federico]

starting from firefox version 3.5.
it doesn't work
 you have to digit CTRL+F than CTRL+G and than the search works

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

please go through  http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic+troubleshooting
if it fails also in safe mode and new profile, then please reopen the bug.

ctrl+F works for me also on windows.