I vote against this. Search-box should NOT be tab specific. If you open a new tab and then tap CTRL+K and start typing, it writes over what was there. What is the problem with this? Why do you need the search field blank? The behavior you guys are proposing has resulted in a miserable experience for people since it was instituted in Firefox's "Find in page" feature. And now you want the search-box to have this awful behavior too?
Since this behavior was adopted by "Find in Page" it has be a horrible experience. Say I have five tabs open. I want to find out if specific text appears anywhere in the five tabs. So in Tab-1 I tap CTRL+F and type out what I want found: nothing is found in the search of Tab-1. I move to Tab-2 and tap F3 but there is no text in the Find box. I tap CTRL+F but it is blank. I HAVE TO RETYPE WHAT I WANT FOUND FOR EVERY SINGLE TAB I SEARCH IN. This is frustrating and a PITA to deal with. I really wish Firefox would revert back to the old "Find in page" behavior and remember Find-requests across tabs. But now you guys want to add this miserable behavior to the search-bar too? What is so hard about tapping CTRL+K and then typing? CTRL+T opens a new tab, CTRL+K positions to the search-bar and highlights anything there, type out your search. Why does the field need to be empty? (In reply to Aaron Sloman from comment #1) > I strongly support this proposal. I frequently start a new tab in firefox > because I wish to do a new search (usually in google). The new tab always > comes > up with a clear box for a url, which is sensible, but it does not start with > a > clear search box. I don't understand the reason for this inconsistency. > > I wonder if it is worth doing any kind of survey to find out how many people > actually welcome saving the previous search box contents when they start a > new tab. > > Aaron > === > www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306017 Title: Firefox search box should be tab specific To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/306017/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
