532642 - Find as you type active even when accessibility.typeaheadfind is set to false

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 254592

(Firefox :: Disability Access, defect)

Description

[Doug]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Pressing the ' or the / key brings up the appropriate find box, even when accessibility.typeaheadfind is set to false.

This makes the preferences item under:
Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> General Tab -> "Search for text when I start typing"

Completely pointless and useless.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> General Tab and verify that the box is not checked for "Search for text when I start typing".
2. Run "about:config" and confirm that accessibility.typeaheadfind is set to false, showing its disabled.
3. On any webpage hit the ' or the / key and notice the find comes up.
Actual Results:  
The find as you text prompts come up, even though find as you type is disabled.

Expected Results:  
Nothing should happen.

Comment 1

[Tim (fmdeveloper)]

Thanks for the bug report. Looks to be a duplicate of Bug 254592.