639325 - Find as you type (Slash or Apostrophe): Found link hidden by link URL if on the last line.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 631270

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[ssameer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12

If the first matching text is a link beyond the current view (which usually happens), firefox scrolls down till the found link is on the last viewed line. However, if it is on the left, it is hidden by the status text that appears in the lower left corner. This is confusing because the user doesn't know that something has been found.
Solution: Firefox should scroll down an extra line (adding it if the fond link is on the last line.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.On any page, search for a link (Apostrophe) that is below the current view.
2. Firefox scrolls down till the link appears on the last line.
Actual Results:  
If it is on the left side, it is hidden by the status text (URL) on the lower left corner.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should scroll down an additional line so that the link found is visible to the user.

Comment 1

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Fixed in latest nightly (http://nightly.mozilla.org/), or else please try Firefox 4 RC when it is released (~few days)