(In reply to Joseph from comment #0) > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; > rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060803 BonEcho/2.0b1 > Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; > rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060803 BonEcho/2.0b1 > > Bug 337654 removed UI elements from the Quick Find bar under the assumption > that Quick Find is an accessibility feature with different needs than Find. > While this may be true for users who choose to invoke it using / or ' > instead of Ctrl+F, one class of users was overlooked: those who use the > typeaheadfind.autostart pref as a way to invoke Find behavior without any > extra keystroke. > > For these users, an appropriate behavior change would be to make the > autostart pref bring up the Find bar rather than QuickFind bar, leaving > QuickFind as a separate feature focused on accessibility needs. Since > autostart FAYT always searches text rather than just links as in QuickFind > invoked with the apostrophe, there is little search functionality difference > between auto FAYT and the Find bar except the now missing UI elements. > Without this change, the visual differentiation (from bug 337654) has > reduced user confusion but also acts as a functional regression, since there > is now no way to truly start FINDing when you begin typing. > > Discussion of the loss of autostart FAYT functionality due to the QuickFind > changes can be found in these three MozillaZine threads: > https://pornogratisaqu.com/es/category/242/Facial/popular/1/ > http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=437010 > http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=436989 > http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=446362 > > Reproducible: Always
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