Bug? When Find in Page bar is not visible, selecting any text makes it the new "Find in Page" term when you try to repeat search
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I've submitted this as a bug, but I'm curious if a significant number of people actually asked for this behavior, since it seems like something that may have been deliberately added. As I mentioned below, I feel like at the very least, there should be an option to turn this off.
Copied from bug report:
Steps:
- Press command-f to do a Find in Page search.
- Click a link to go to another page.
- Select some text (maybe you want to copy it)
- Press command-g to repeat your previous Find in Page search
- While the "Find in Page" bar is not active, select some text on a page.
- Press command-f or command-g to repeat a Find in Page search you previously executed.
Expected result:
"Find in Page" input field should retain the previous search term. At the very least, "Use selected text for Find in Page" should be a Preferences option you can turn off.Actual result:
The field's contents are replaced by the selected text.I find this can be quite frustrating. Let's say I'm searching through multiple pages of a website for a particular term. Every time I click on a link, there's a risk (particularly with a sensitive mouse) that I'll accidentally select a bit of text, inadvertently replacing the search term I want to continue searching for. Or maybe I just need to copy some text, and forget to deselect it before resuming searching.
Also bad is that if you have string A selected on a page, press command-f, replace the search text with desired search string B, and then at least twice do the following:
- dismiss Find in Page (escape key),
- bring up again (command-g)
The search field gets set back to A again even though A is not even visibly selected on the page anymore.
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@isildur It is a feature that significant numbers of users requested, not a bug.