apparently there is no way to edit a comment. One reason for "the inconsistency" as you put it is that after you do a search in a tab and find something of interest, you may want to leave that tab open and perform a similar search in a new tab. So you tap CTRL+T and make a slight modification to the search terms in the search-box. If the search-box is made empty in the new tab you have to retype your entire search query out again.
(In reply to Greg from comment #81) > 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 ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
