809881 - "Find" often fails to scroll page to show search hit

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect, P3)

Description

[F. Ehrhardt]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0
Build ID: 20121024073032

Steps to reproduce:

[happens on many websites] Ctrl+F to open Find box, enter string, type <enter>. 

As an example, http://www.target.com/s?searchTerm=clock+radio&category=0|All|matchallpartial|all+categories#navigation=true&viewType=medium&sortBy=PriceHigh&isleaf=false&RatingFacet=0
...Find string: 'atomic'


Actual results:

Frequently, the Find text is not highlighted in the viewport, as it should be. I suspect that FF is finding matches in HTML that is not rendered. The Find box does NOT say, "reached end of page" at that point.


Expected results:

The Find function should highlight and display only actual, visible matches.

Closest matching defect is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406642, but it is ancient and so AFAIK irrelevant.

Thanks for your help.

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

bug 305381, bug 407817; bug 592336, bug 622801

Comment 2

[Pradeep Mathesh]

when I search for text in a page, firefox takes me to next match even when I have scroll down. Idealy(like in safari browser), it should match the text from viewport(current page) to the end of the document.

Comment 3

[Petruta Horea [:phorea], Desktop QA]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0 (20130904004004)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 (20130904030204)
 
I've reproduce this bug on latest Aurora (and Nightly) while testing for the pre-beta sign-off of the Find Bar Redesign feature.
Searching for "clock" on the link provided in Comment 0 also finds non visible results.
I encounter the same behavior on latest Chrome.

Does anyone has any thoughts/suggestions? Thank you

Comment 4

[arni2033]

I can't access that link from Russia apparently... It returns "Access Denied". Here's working link:
> http://web.archive.org/web/20121018070206/http://www.target.com/s?searchTerm=clock+radio&category=0|All|matchallpartial|all+categories

When I try to search "atomic" by pressing Enter in Findbar, the very 1st match isn't highlighted. But if I focus the page instead and press (Shift+)F3, 1st match becomes visible (because it's focused). So that's the case. That element is invisible on the page unless it has :hover or :focus

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Do you still see this problem?

Comment 6

[F. Ehrhardt]

Thank you for your efforts. Yes unfortunately this problem continues, not with all URLs but, of the pages where I find ctrl-F helpful, I estimate that 5-10% provoke this problem --- some of the string matches are shown in the viewport, but then others are hidden.