Comment 87 for bug 306017

apparently there is no way to edit a comment. One reason for "the inconsistency" as you put it is that after you do a search in a tab and find something of interest, you may want to leave that tab open and perform a similar search in a new tab. So you tap CTRL+T and make a slight modification to the search terms in the search-box. If the search-box is made empty in the new tab you have to retype your entire search query out again.

(In reply to Greg from comment #81)
> I vote against this. Search-box should NOT be tab specific.
>
> If you open a new tab and then tap CTRL+K and start typing, it writes over
> what was there. What is the problem with this? Why do you need the search
> field blank? The behavior you guys are proposing has resulted in a miserable
> experience for people since it was instituted in Firefox's "Find in page"
> feature. And now you want the search-box to have this awful behavior too?
>
> Since this behavior was adopted by "Find in Page" it has be a horrible
> experience. Say I have five tabs open. I want to find out if specific text
> appears anywhere in the five tabs. So in Tab-1 I tap CTRL+F and type out
> what I want found: nothing is found in the search of Tab-1. I move to Tab-2
> and tap F3 but there is no text in the Find box. I tap CTRL+F but it is
> blank. I HAVE TO RETYPE WHAT I WANT FOUND FOR EVERY SINGLE TAB I SEARCH IN.
> This is frustrating and a PITA to deal with. I really wish Firefox would
> revert back to the old "Find in page" behavior and remember Find-requests
> across tabs. But now you guys want to add this miserable behavior to the
> search-bar too? What is so hard about tapping CTRL+K and then typing? CTRL+T
> opens a new tab, CTRL+K positions to the search-bar and highlights anything
> there, type out your search. Why does the field need to be empty?
>
> (In reply to Aaron Sloman from comment #1)
> > I strongly support this proposal. I frequently start a new tab in firefox
> > because I wish to do a new search (usually in google). The new tab always
> > comes
> > up with a clear box for a url, which is sensible, but it does not start with
> > a
> > clear search box. I don't understand the reason for this inconsistency.
> >
> > I wonder if it is worth doing any kind of survey to find out how many people
> > actually welcome saving the previous search box contents when they start a
> > new tab.
> >
> > Aaron
> > ===
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