User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008060906 Minefield/3.0pre Build Identifier: Currently the find-as-you-type Mozilla features is applied just you type the first character, and every time you modify the search string the search is re-performed. What I suggest is to wait X milliseconds. If in these time the search string is not modified or Enter key is not pressed, the search will be performed. This is good in particular to search urls in new Firefox awesomebar. Reproducible: Always

this shouldn't block bug 380307. the described functionality is implemented via the browser.urlbar.search.timeout pref in firefox. i'll let a seamonkey dev confirm/close this, if the pref is exposed there as well.

No, it's not what I mean. I suggest to have a delay _before_ the search is performed. This could be applied to all find-as-you-type modules too, not only to location bar. PS: I opened this bug for Firefox, I re-change the product

I can remember another bug report against the location bar where a similar thing was asked. Mardak, do you have this handy? So this bug could be a dupe.

If this is about FAYT, it wouldn't be a dupe of a location bar delayed search. whimboo, are you thinking about bug 498452?

Oh yes. But this is fixed. So it cannot be a dupe, correct.

This should also apply to Mailnews "Search Subject or Address" box (activated by CTRL-K), as it imposes quite a performance slowdown especially on big IMAP accounts folders.