596659 - CTRL + F Results (Highlight all)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Cal Leeming (Simplicity Media Ltd)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.472.55 Safari/534.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100824 Firefox/3.6.9

Hey,

When using the built in CTRL + F (find on page) feature, you can click highlight all to highlight all matches of what you are looking for.

However, if you were to change the search criteria, and click find next again, the highlighting still stays on the old criteria. To get it to highlight the new criteria, you have to un-click highlight, and then re-click it again.

I know this seems like a petty bug, but it is quite annoying for one of the legacy systems we use, where the CTRL + F highlight feature is the only way of searching for information on the large results page easily.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to google.com and look for the word sexy
2. Press Ctrl + F, look for 'sexy' then click highlight all
3. Change the keyword to 'hot', then click find next
Actual Results:  
You'll see 'sexy' is still highlighted, and hot isn't.

Expected Results:  
It should have either highlighted elements on the fly, or if we want to save CPU cycles, then it could do it when you next fit 'search'.

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, Firefox 4.0.1 has been released, and it features significant improvements over previous releases. Can you please update to Firefox 4.0.1 or later, and retest your bug? Please also create a fresh profile (
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles), update your plugins (Flash, Java, Quicktime, Reader, etc) and update your graphics driver and Operating system to the latest versions available. 

If you still continue to see this issue, please comment. If you do not, please close this bug as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME

filter: prefirefox4uncobugs

Comment 2

[Ioana (away)]

WFM on:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (20131223030203)