503599 - Find As You Type only in visible portion of window

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Find Backend, enhancement)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) AutoPager/0.5.2.2 (http://www.teesoft.info/)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

I use the "Find As You Type (links only)" feature frequently for browsing when I don't have access to a mouse. It is annoying, however, to type in the first few letters of a link you see on your screen and then have the page jump back to the top to a similar link. It would be useful if there was an option to limit the feature to search only the visible portion of the window and not the whole page. An alternative option could be searching only the visible portion of the page and also the portion below it, but not the portion above.

Reproducible: Always