If you're like me, and read the comments first, this change is about giving feedback on the scrollbar for a search. In other words, when you search for something, the scrollbar will give an idea how many results there are, and where on the page rhey are located.<p>On another note, the comment uses IntelliJ as an example. Wow, that was 17 years ago! Happy to see my favorite editor be around for so long.
Good on them for actually tracking this feature request for over a decade and not just closing it after three weeks for “lack of interest.”<p>Looking at you, every random GitHub project ever.
I hope they also finally allow black on yellow highlighting again (like pretty much every other browser), which hasn’t been possible since Firefox 3.5 in 2009.<p><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505089" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505089</a>
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Not to get too greedy, but maybe do the 21 year old “Use native context menus on Mac OS” next?<p><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34572" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34572</a>
Poor Keith, reported it 17 years ago and then vanished in 2005 missing out on the long journey of his feature request.<p><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259640" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259640</a>
One of the most voted for issues is closed WONTFIX: single click selects all in address bar and search box.<p>I use Firefox exclusively and this is the single most annoying change they made for no apparent reason. So annoying.<p><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621570" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621570</a>
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It’s also interesting that the context of this bug has changed over the years. I’d be surprised to learn if we had gigantic single-page api reference docs 17 years ago
I'm immensely grateful to the developers involved. I'm sure it wasn't easy but it's one of those features that I've always missed ever since chrome added it.
It also shows the value of a decent bug tracking system.
Glad they finally add this. Used to be a painful lack compared to chromium-based browsers. During the long wait I've found this amazing addon called HighlightAll [1], which allows you to search multiple keywords and highlight them with different colors; the position will also be labelled on the scroll bar. Super helpful for researching/consuming long articles.<p>[1]: <a href="http://jgoudey.free.fr/highlightall/" rel="nofollow">http://jgoudey.free.fr/highlightall/</a>
This was a feature that appeared in chrome way back when and was what made me switch. Always felt Firefox search was inferior because this was missing.
Nit-picking here, but language is important.<p>Not sure I like the idea that a "feature request" can be "fixed". It's a feature, not a bug. It's a request, not some sort of obligation of the development team.<p>Still though, it's good to see a process work over a 17 year long period, in an industry where things oftentimes seem to be thrown out in a matter of a few years.
Obligatory dogpile, but I'm hoping for the day you can disable Ctrl-Q to prevent accidentally closing the browser with a single keystroke. It's impossible to do on Linux.
<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=915" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=915</a><p>It is older!
17 years is pretty good. I had BSD gnats bugs 10+, which I would have loved to be fixed, but the BIOS in question (it was ACPI stuff) is long dead. However, similar bugs persist in modern hardware/software "layer 2" systems under the OS. They're just hard to fix, without NDA.<p>The entire 802.11 blobs story, is about persisting "if we knew how the magic FPGA works we'd fix this" stories.
Comment 6 • 15 years ago :<p>> I'm going to take this bug so maybe someday I can do it. Way too hard for now, but it would be very nice to have.<p>Now that's persistence!
Still sad that <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14328" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14328</a> was closed 2 years ago after being open for 20 years.
Great, now maybe they can fix the size of adding bookmarks window.<p><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219972" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219972</a><p>My favorite bug, 18 years old, closed without replacement.
I am never really sure how this feature is helpful, I don't know if I'm being obtuse about the functionality that people give it.<p>In the JetBrains software I use it all the time but only cause it's clickable.
Cool, at that rate only another 16 years or so until they'll fix the fact that running a Zoom or Hangout call on Firefox turns your MBP into a toaster.<p>Wish they'd focus on battery use! It's so crazy un-optimized. Run your next Zoom call on Firefox and put your laptop on your lap to test... Or just watch the battery meter plummet vs. other browsers.