Closed Bug 953259 Opened 11 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Option for findbar to retain search term across tabs.

Categories

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, defect)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Find Toolbar
Version:
29 Branch
Platform:
x86
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 920031

People

(Reporter: aeidein, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131224030203

Steps to reproduce:

Enter search term in findbar, switch tab, hit F3.


Actual results:

Findbar is cleared upon switching tabs.


Expected results:

Search term should remain in findbar, ready to search on the focused tab.

This was often used to search for a term in multiple tabs (e.g., multiple Google Search results), while its removal makes this impossible while conferring 0 advantages.  A simple about:config pref to reinstate the functionality would satisfy literally everybody.
Component: Untriaged → Find Toolbar
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
This bug relates to Bug 537013 & Bug 890584 Changing the function for one use case prevented the valid and previous use case and broke addons.
Also, my add-on FindBar Tweak changes this behavior to something very similar to what you describe, out-of-the-box.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
I'd rather not use an add-on for what should be (and used to be) core functionality.  There's absolutely no reason for the change, and less for not offering the option.
I'm new to Mozilla - what's the procedure to get this reversed? Also, who is making these seemingly arbitrary and heavy-handed decisions?
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