Bug 64263 – Find toolbar in Firefox 1.0 PR doesn't work

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Jure Repinc 2004-09-16 06:41:34 UTC]

I just emerged Firefox 1.0 PR and the find toolbar doesn't work. The phrase I enter isn't highlighted and the page doesn't scroll to the position of the phrase. Find Next and Find Previous buttons also don't work. Highlight button does highlight phrases.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit a page
2. Pres Ctrl+F
3. type a phrase that exists in the Find: field

Actual Results:  
The word you typed and exists in page doesn't highlight and the page isn't scrolled.

Expected Results:  
If the word you typed is found it should be highlighted in green and the page
should scroll. If the phrase is not found there should be a warning. Find
Next/Previous buttons should work.

Portage 2.0.51_rc1 (default-linux/amd64/gcc34-2004.2, gcc-3.4.1, glibc-2.3.4.200
40808-r0, 2.6.8-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.7-r4
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/s
hare/config /usr/kde/cvs/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/
config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/shar
e/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf
/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -pipe -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -frename-registers"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/dis
tributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/root/portageoverlay"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acpi alsa amd64 apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups curl dvd dvdr encode e
sd exif fam fbcon flac foomaticdb ftp gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk g
tk2 imlib jabber jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nl
s nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png posix ppds python qt quicktime r
eadline samba scanner sdl slang slp speex spell ssl tcpd tetex theora tiff truet
ype unicode usb videos xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid zlib linguas_en linguas_sl"

[Comment 1 Jure Repinc 2004-09-16 06:44:39 UTC]

I'm not sure but maybe this could be related to this bug:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251543

[Comment 2 Toby Thatcher 2004-09-16 11:31:24 UTC]

I see this also.  In addition the find as you type feature does not work.  I noticed however that the find toolbar then highlight function does work.

[Comment 3 Charles Noneman 2004-09-16 16:02:31 UTC]

Bug 64196 has a solution.
Edit /usr/portage/eclass/mozilla.eclass and remove "typeaheadfind" from the line:
myext="cookie,inspector,negotiateauth,pref,transformiix,typeaheadfind,universalchardet,webservices,xmlextras,xml-rpc"
then rebuild firefox.

[Comment 4 basic 2004-09-17 03:20:00 UTC]

duplicate of bug 64196

[Comment 5 Travis Tilley (RETIRED) 2004-09-17 15:58:42 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64196 ***

[Comment 6 Eric Shattow 2004-09-17 15:59:44 UTC]

WARNING: this suggestion i am making *will* dump all your settings extensions etc. etc. for firefox

my proposed workaround:

delete or move the old ~/.mozilla/firefox

start firefox

edit | preferences: advanced::Accessibility;  Use Find As You Type  [enabled]


as i recall, that was all i had to do.