664628 - Status/link panel gets in way (obscures a find result at bottom-left side of page), if I close findbar & invoke Find Again with F3/Ctrl-G

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 658937

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Bug 631270 added a hack to prevent the status panel from obscuring links at bottom-left when the find panel was open, but if I continue searching after closing the find panel, its hack stops working.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE: (based on bug 631270)
1. Start Minefield with new profile
2. Open attachment 509483 [details]
3. Press Ctrl + F
4. Type "Firefox" in findbar
5. Press Esc key to close findbar  <--- (this part of the STR is new)
6. Press F3 or Ctrl-G and repeat

ACTUAL RESULTS: Status panel obscures any find results that are at bottom-left of the window.

EXPECTED RESULTS: I should be able to see my find results.

NOTE: (as highlighted with "<--", step 5 in STR is added on top of the original STR from bug 631270, and it's what makes this bug reproducible)

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(Adding regression keyword, as this is a regression w.r.t. Firefox 3.6.)

Comment 2

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0a1) Gecko/20110614 Firefox/7.0a1

Comment 3

[Paul [pwd]]

There were some plans to improve the find experience that proposed ensuring find results were vertically centred. That would fix this bug and some others by dealing with the root-cause rather than the symptoms. 

Sadly no individual bug was made for that.

Comment 4

[Thomas Ahlblom]

Duplicate of bug 658937?

Comment 5

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Mm, looks like it. (specifically, this is a dupe of the updated STR in bug 658937 comment 5 -- the original STR there are more like bug 631270).