Firefox - find as you type bug

[rh71]

I'm loving the "find as you type" feature of FF, but it's buggy as hell. Sometimes it would decide not to work at all - it would auto-open the find box at the bottom but never goto the word actually present on the page. I'd have to close the browser instance completely and re-open it for it to work again. Do you guys notice this ? Has happened with the last few versions.

 

[Sunner]

Overall the search feature of Firefox, be it through find as you type, or just the ole fashion ctrl-f, sucks.
Seems like it doesn't like working with tables and such.

 

[screw3d]

It has been working fine for me so far. The only problem now on Deer Park is that when I type something (after clicking on an empty portion of the page), the caret ends up on the location bar right as I try to type in the second key. I have to restart the browser for it to work again. It looks like it has been fixed in Deer Park Alpha 2 though

 

[Red Squirrel]

I never had any issues with it. I'm using firefox 1.0.4. It seems to just work for me every time.

I did have an issue though where as I was typing in forums it would randomly pop up and start searching, but a few reboots cured that.

 

[kamper]

I once had a problem where typing a ' character in a text box would start a search but that somehow fixed itself. Other than that, there have been no problems here.

 

[rh71]

I've had enough... it's pissing me off... enough that I actually took 2 minutes to make a screenshot. Failed on every word I tried on that particular page. This is v1.0.6 now.

Now where is the FF bug report page so I can see if this is already reported ?

 

[mattsaccount]

I haven't had too many issues with it not finding text--I just hate it when it decides to activate while filling a form. Normally, when you fill in a form, it works fine, but sometimes when you begin typing in the form, it activates find as you type, which is really irritating. A close/restart fixes it.

 

[sciencewhiz]

Works for me (at that gamespot page) on both Mozilla 1.7.8 and firefox 1.0.6 on linux.

What extensions do you have?


for anybody else who wants to try it, the link is http://gamespot.com/reviews.html?type=b...atform=all&order=desc&time=threemonths

 

[manly]

Originally posted by: rh71
I've had enough... it's pissing me off... enough that I actually took 2 minutes to make a screenshot. Failed on every word I tried on that particular page. This is v1.0.6 now.

Now where is the FF bug report page so I can see if this is already reported ?

WFM in Mozilla 1.7.10 . I rarely use it though.

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: rh71
I've had enough... it's pissing me off... enough that I actually took 2 minutes to make a screenshot. Failed on every word I tried on that particular page. This is v1.0.6 now.

Now where is the FF bug report page so I can see if this is already reported ?

Did you notice the window title bar is also mislabeled? It should say Gamespot which is your current tab, not Anandtech. You know, IE has a lot of holes due to ActiveX, but Microsoft is very capable in terms of keeping bugs at bay. Which is why I still use it.

 

[bersl2]

Originally posted by: mattsaccount
I haven't had too many issues with it not finding text--I just hate it when it decides to activate while filling a form. Normally, when you fill in a form, it works fine, but sometimes when you begin typing in the form, it activates find as you type, which is really irritating. A close/restart fixes it.

Yeah, that's an annoying bug. I can fix it by using tab or shift-tab to get to the field I want to. It usually doesn't have problems after that.

Might I add, it only happens on the trunk version.

 

[rh71]

you guys named the other 2 bugs I've mentioned in previous FF bug threads. Those are my top 3 for sure.

 

[CTho9305]

Have you considered checking bugzilla and filing bugs if that isn't filed? FWIW, I notice none of those "top 3" bugs in SeaMonkey 1.0a nightly.

 

[omarmakki]

I don't have any problems with searching with Firefox. I am using v1.0.6 BTW...

 

[anarchyreigns]

Works fine for me too.