search toolbar should have an option to match only whole words

[Hans Ginzel]

Binary package hint: firefox

Hello,

I am missing a check-box on the find bar for finding only whole words.
To select finding for globs or regular expressions would be also nice.

Thanks
Hans Ginzel

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b1) Gecko/2007120714 Firefox/3.0b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b1) Gecko/2007120714 Firefox/3.0b1

Hans Ginzel submitted the following feature request to Ubuntu's BTS:

«I am missing a check-box on the find bar for finding only whole words.
To select finding for globs or regular expressions would be also nice.»

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press Ctrl + F.
Actual Results:
Notice that there's no "Whole words only" checkbox.

Expected Results:
There should be a checkbox (like the "Match case" one) to search only for whole words.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

There URL to the original bug report is:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/179064

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

Thanks for your feature request and helping improve Ubuntu!

I forwarded you suggestion to Firefox's developers (Mozilla Bug #410103). I'm going to mark the Ubuntu task as «Won't Fix» as this is a trivial issue which should be worked on by the Firefox Team and not by an Ubuntu Developer.

[Ria-klaassen (ria-klaassen)]

This looks like a duplicate of bug 269442.
Maybe there's an existing extension for this at AMO?
Or you could ask the author of an existing extension like Find Toolbar Tweaks to add the feature to his extension? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2585

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

They are duplicates indeed. Marking it as such.

Thanks for looking at this! :)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 269442 ***

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

It seems like this won't be added to Firefox, but it seems that the extension "Find Toolbar Tweaks" will support both features you requested (whole words only and regex) soon:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2585

[Hans Ginzel (hans-matfyz)]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 11:28:13AM -0000, Siegfried Gevatter (RainCT) wrote:
> It seems like this won't be added to Firefox, but it seems that the
> extension "Find Toolbar Tweaks" will support both features you requested
> (whole words only and regex) soon:
>
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2585

Thanks
HG