803456 - Highlighting from Find within a PDF remains after closing Find bar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1365105

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect, P2)

Description

[david.smitmanis]

To see the issue, open a pdf, open the Find bar (ctrl-f), search for a word, press next so it gets highlighted. If you close the Find bar, the word is still highlighted, and will remain so until you open the bar again and erase the search term. If you erase the search term in another tab, you have to write a new search term to make the highlighting go away.

The way it works in the rest of Firefox is that upon closing the find bar, the highlighted word is instead selected.

Comment 1

[Ada [:adalucinet]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20130206083616

I confirm the same behavior on Mac OSX 10.8 on Firefox 19 beta 5, latest Aurora 20.0a2(from 2013-02-07) and Nightly 21.0a1 (from 2013-02-07). If I close the find bar after searching, the word(s) remain(s) highlighted even if I click anywhere in the pdf.

Comment 2

[Albert Scheiner [:alberts]]

duplicate of bug 803456?

Comment 3

[Albert Scheiner [:alberts]]

Sorry for bug spam, I meant bug 340814?

Comment 4

[BoffinBrain]

Confirmed as still present in Firefox 58.0.2. Happens regardless of whether Highlight All is on or off.

Suggest changing the title to "Highlighting from Find with a PDF remains after closing Find bar"