User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 When I'm using Gmail and composing a message typing an apostrophe brings up the FIND dialog box every time which means I can't type any contractions :(. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Compose a message in Gmail 2. Type an apostrophe and Find dialog pops up 3. Actual Results: the find dialog poppped up Expected Results: just typed the apostrophe

This is a Dup; See Bug 307375 "[splitwindow] findbar pops up when typing in textfield after launching 2nd firefox" (and others)

Typing an apostrophe when the page has focus is supposed to bring up Find (in the form of a toolbar, not a dialog), but it's not supposed to do that when a textbox or textarea has focus (which is the case when you're typing a message in Gmail). We had lots of bugs like this leading up to Firefox 1.5 but I think we had fixed all the known ones for Firefox 1.5. Since you're still seeing this kind of problem in Firefox 1.5, I guess we didn't fix them all :( Are you really getting a find dialog rather than a find toolbar? That's pretty weird...

Reporter - If you have extensions installed have you tested this in safe mode and/or a blank profile? Gmail works fine for me, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Does this bug only happen when using one of Gmail's compose modes (rich formatting mode and plain text mode), or does it happen using both modes?

WFM using Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5. I have about 40 extensions installed in my Firefox profile.

Able to confirm this with a lycos email account. Any attempt to type an apostrophe results in the find toolbar popping up. Using Firefox 1.5 Final, with only gmail notifier 0.5.3 installed. In general web forms are ok. Find as you type is disabled in the options. Rich.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051208 Firefox/1.6a1 In reply to the last two comments, I think that the drivers/devs are looking for confirmation (or the reverse) that: 1. A find dialogue comes up (not a toolbar) 2. The problem is current (not been fixed by recent checkins) We probably need a little more info before deciding what to do here, and certainly info that is more precise. It is very far from being my call, but until comment 1 is resolved, it remains possible that this report is a dup of a fixed defect!

bfowler, this bug was reported against Firefox 1.5, which is current enough and has fixes for all the known bugs of this type (see bug 320465's dependency list).

This bug occurs with FireFox 1.5 final with no extensions. Confirmed on both Windows XP SP 2 and Mac OS 10.4.x. Effects both Gmail and Google Suggest, and apparently other sites as well. This bug has existed since at least the Deer Park alphas. Very annoying!

Also happens when trying to comment on Xanga.com sites.

(In reply to comment #10) > Also happens when trying to comment on Xanga.com sites. > This bug just hit me when typing a reply on Hotmail.com, I'm using Windows XP SP2 and I'm up to date with Firefox 1.5.0.1 en-GB. Please get this fixed... it's a terrible usability bug!

This is unfortunately an occasional bug, it does not happen all the time. When it happens, if I type either ' or / in certain text editing boxes (Wikipedia for instance), the find toolbar comes up and my typing is redirected to there. Another symptom is that at the same time, pasting into the text box becomes disabled. This points to firefox believing that you are in the main page bodies, where these two actions make sense. Unfortunately I have not found a reproducable way to get into this state, it seems to happen almost at random. I can generally kick it out of this mode by switching to another tab with a different page and text box, and typing into there. For instance when I typed in this box, I was then able to type those characters and use paste in my wiki text box. This is a VERY annoying bug when you do a lot of text entry in pages, and would turn off less determined users as it makes firefox appear unusable. Firefox 1.5.0.1

The sites reported all seem to be using rich text editing (I've had problems on thestudentroom.com which has vBulletin forums), and that is likely where the problem arises due to how rich text editing is normally imlemented. The user is actually normally clicking on a div, which is updated by javascript to present the desired output, the relevant HTML code is then copied into the text area field. Hope the above is of some help in solving this, because I'm sick of not being able to use proper grammar whilst using various sites!

Recently built a new machine and did a clean install of everthing. Windows XP SP2 + all updates and FireFox 1.5 with NO extensions. Bug still hits me frequently in Gmail. I am generally able to fix by alt-tabbing to another program and then back to Firefox. I am also seeing the copy/paste problems as others have reported. Not being able to use the clipboard is almost as annoying as the apostrophe / forward slash problem...

I was typing in Yahoo answers, and used an apostrophe in my question. All of the sudden, the find toolbar popped up at the bottom of the screen. I tried it again in regular Yahoo, same result, apostrophe brought up the find toolbar. I opened up another window (not tab) and brought up Google, same result. Ditto with Gmail. Came here to report it, and POOF, the problem is gone. Will report back if it comes again.

Dave, if you figure out a reproducible way to get Firefox into that messed-up state, please tell us!

This is definitely an issue. I was typing in a regular textarea on the DvdTalk.com forums and apostrophe kept bringing up the find toolbar. Arrow keys didn't work and backspace brought me to the previous page. In other words, Firefox thought the focus was the main page, not the textarea. As others have said, it only happens some of the time; it's not easily reproducible. It's persistent, though. Both times it's affected me, I've hit Back/Forward, Reload, Shift+Reload... nothing worked until I actually closed the browser, opened it again, and went back to the page. It might be good to change the summary to reflect this. "Firefox sometimes fails to recognize textarea focus" would be more accurate. Firefox 1.5.0.2 Windows XP SP 2

I have been trying hard to reproduce this to no avail, truly it is a Schrodinger bug. One thing I did notice when I looked away and it randomly occurred again is that it only enters the state through a page load; it doesn't happen arbitrarily once a page is already open. Further, I believe it has to do with switching focus to another application during the process of the page load, as every time it has happened I had moved to another application (often Outlook) to do something (often changing the Paste buffer) while waiting for a page to load. Unclear if the mechanism I used to switch caused Firefox to minimize as well while I did this. Unfortunately this seems to also be linked to the precise timing of these actions with the page load sequence, as I cannot at all make it happen on purpose, even if I mirror the exact actions I know I just did when it happened.

(In reply to comment #16) > Dave, if you figure out a reproducible way to get Firefox into that messed-up > state, please tell us! > Hi, I've figured out a way to consistently reproduce the problem on my PC. I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.3, no extensions on XP SP2. I've got a firefox icon in my quickstart on the bottom left. google.com is my starting page. - Close all firefox instances - Start firefox - Google.com loads (you can type an apostrophe in the search field without any problems) - Start another instance of firefox - Google.com loads (you can't use an apostrophe, home, end, arrows) I really hope you guys can reproduce this... A colleague of mine is using 1.0.7 without problems.

(In reply to comment #19) > (In reply to comment #16) > > Dave, if you figure out a reproducible way to get Firefox into that messed-up > > state, please tell us! > > > > Hi, > > I've figured out a way to consistently reproduce the problem on my PC. > I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.3, no extensions on XP SP2. > I've got a firefox icon in my quickstart on the bottom left. > google.com is my starting page. > > - Close all firefox instances > - Start firefox > - Google.com loads (you can type an apostrophe in the search field without any > problems) > - Start another instance of firefox > - Google.com loads (you can't use an apostrophe, home, end, arrows) > > I really hope you guys can reproduce this... > A colleague of mine is using 1.0.7 without problems. > Something I forgot to mention: Don't type anything in the first instance of firefox with google.com loaded. Open 2 instances, and type an ' in the google search field of the second instance.

(In reply to comment #20) > (In reply to comment #19) > > (In reply to comment #16) > > > Dave, if you figure out a reproducible way to get Firefox into that messed-up > > > state, please tell us! > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I've figured out a way to consistently reproduce the problem on my PC. > > I'm using Firefox 1.5.0.3, no extensions on XP SP2. > > I've got a firefox icon in my quickstart on the bottom left. > > google.com is my starting page. > > > > - Close all firefox instances > > - Start firefox > > - Google.com loads (you can type an apostrophe in the search field without any > > problems) > > - Start another instance of firefox > > - Google.com loads (you can't use an apostrophe, home, end, arrows) > > > > I really hope you guys can reproduce this... > > A colleague of mine is using 1.0.7 without problems. > > > Something I forgot to mention: Don't type anything in the first instance of > firefox with google.com loaded. > Open 2 instances, and type an ' in the google search field of the second > instance. > I'm sorry to report that my method of reproducing the bug doesn't seem to work on a colleague's PC. He upgraded tot 1.5.0.3, but couldn't reproduce the bug. I can still reproduce it at any time...

that's ok, if other people having the problem can reproduce the same way then it gives us a good clue.

(In reply to comment #22) > that's ok, if other people having the problem can reproduce the same way then > it gives us a good clue. I've done some googling, and other people reporting the bug are also talking about having multiple istances of firefox open, so I think this is an essential clue. Hope this is of use to you...

This bug is driving me crazy. Sometimes when it occurs for me, I can not even type anything into a text dialog without the find toolbar popping up and stealing the focus. But most of all, it shows up when I hit an apostrophe or forward slash in a text dialog. The only thing that has consistently gotten rid of the bug temporarily for me is to go into Tools->Options->Advanced->General and change the state of "Begin Finding as you begin typing." It doesn't have to be checked or unchecked, the state of the checkmark simply has to change. But even after changing the state of that checkbox, the bug rears its ugly head again very soon for me.

I've seen this bug as well. And it is extremely annoying. Windows XP Pro SP2; Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4

I hope I'm typing in the right field. I can reproduce this bug 100% of the time now. I have my default homepage set to google.com. I open a new browser and let it sit at the homepage without typing anything. Without clicking anywhere or typing anything, I middle-click on my home page icon (at the top) to open another tab of the home page (google.com) in a new tab. (It doesn't matter how long I wait. I could probably wait 5 minutes (just letting the homepage sit there), then do the middle click thing and the same thing would happen.) Then, if I press the / key, it brings up the Find toolbar. I can stop the problem by toggling caret browsing on and then off again real quick. This doesn't seem to have anything to do with JavaScript. (google.com automatically positions the cursor in the search box, of course.) If I turn off JavaScript, I can reproduce the error in the same way. Of course, I then first have to click (to create 'focus') in the text box; then, when I hit the / key, the Find toolbar appears as expected. I hope you can fix this bug ASAP; it really makes text entry very difficult. Oh, for the record, I'm using the latest version of FireFox; I updated from 1.0 yesterday.

(In reply to comment #26) > I hope I'm typing in the right field. > > I can reproduce this bug 100% of the time now. > > I have my default homepage set to google.com. I open a new browser and let it > sit at the homepage without typing anything. Without clicking anywhere or > typing anything, I middle-click on my home page icon (at the top) to open > another tab of the home page (google.com) in a new tab. (It doesn't matter how > long I wait. I could probably wait 5 minutes (just letting the homepage sit > there), then do the middle click thing and the same thing would happen.) Then, > if I press the / key, it brings up the Find toolbar. > > I can stop the problem by toggling caret browsing on and then off again real > quick. > > This doesn't seem to have anything to do with JavaScript. (google.com > automatically positions the cursor in the search box, of course.) If I turn > off JavaScript, I can reproduce the error in the same way. Of course, I then > first have to click (to create 'focus') in the text box; then, when I hit the / > key, the Find toolbar appears as expected. > > I hope you can fix this bug ASAP; it really makes text entry very difficult. > > Oh, for the record, I'm using the latest version of FireFox; I updated from 1.0 > yesterday. > This works for me too! If I follow these directions I consistently get the bug... Hope you guys can work out a solution now. And another thing: the copy/paste bug is really annoying as well! :p

dup of bug 311376?

This seems to be tied in with the pgup/pgdn keys as well. Open gmail, then open a new window and sometimes (but not always) the find bar pops up when using apostrophe, but usually also the pgup / pgdn keys don't work either. As soon as gmail is closed, the bug dissappeared. This bug has been around for a long long time.

It is a find toolbar at the bottom of the window

I was starting to wonder if it was just me! My boyfriend thought I was insane. -_-; It just happened to me while typing a comment on Live Journal posts. Not a post, but a comment. I've had it happen to me all over the place though, I can't remember specifically all of them. I don't generally have two windows of Firefox open, and didn't this time (although I did have Thunderbird open, I don't know if that counts) and it still happened to me. When I tried to copy an ' from earlier on the page it wouldn't let me copy anything on the page. Then when I tried "Select All" and then went through my other tabs, I found that all of ANOTHER tab's content is selected instead of the tab I had pressed the command in. Windows XP Pro Firefox 1.5.0.6 (but has been happening before this)

Maybe that's what happens! When this bug happens, it is actually another window/tab, which does not have the focus in a text box, that the apostrophe keypress gets sent to. So simply check if the keypress event came from the current page before showing the find bar. I've never had this bug before, but I've just thought of that from reading Amy's comment. To anyone who has this bug, when the Find bar pops up, does it find text on the current page?

pile0nades@gmail.com: Yes, it does. I just repeated the bug in the final version of 1.5 by reading your message in gmail, and hitting the apostrophe. The find box then searches the current page (in this case, your email).

not just in gmail, but in any sort of text field, there is a very high chance of having an apostrophe hit open up the quick find bar. CAN YOU JUST HAVE AN OPTION TO DISABLE QUICK FIND??? Ctrl+F works so much better.

this bug is worse in firefox 2.0 actually because they decided that it would be a good idea to let quick find search in text boxes too....so hitting apostrophe in a text box will bring up quick find.

Note, I'm now unable to confirm this bug in 1.5.0.8 on Windows XP. Sounds like it's now showing up in the 2.0 branch though.

Larry, the decision was about where text can be found, not where focus can be for triggering Find with / or '. This is still just buggy behavior, not a feature.

Larry - disabling a function because it's buggy makes less sense than FIXING it. I believe this is the same issue as bug 220900 and believe that patch will also solve this problem.

no, i never said that mozilla should get rid of it, but i think that they should let us have the option of disabling it. that would be an easy quick-fix to the problem while they work on a (major?) update on the actual problem and it would also help a lot of people out in the meantime. seriously, you need to read the comments more carefully before deriding someone's comment.

and if you read my comment, you'll see that a bug is already fixed that might take care of this. Also if you read around some related bugs you'll see that for most people who are seeing this issue they're opening more than one window using a windows shortcut. If you use ctrl+N or the new window toolbar button instead this should work around the issue.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 311376 ***