I found a fun bug that causes DOM corruption.

Repro:
0) Have Find Toolbar Tweaks installed (this may not be necessary) http://homepage3.nifty.com/georgei/extension/ftt_en.html
1) Goto https://wiki.secondlife.com/w/index.php?title=Special:Wantedcategories&limit=500&offset=0
2) Open the find bar and check “Regular Expression” checkbox
3) Search for “^LSL[^/]*$” but without the quotes
4) Click the Highlight all button
5) Observe that the list numbers all increase.

Theory:
I believe this happens because the Highlight All captures the “li” element and tries to wrap the element in a span tag. At which point Firefox tries to fix the error by automatically nesting the span tag in a new “li” element.

How do you search for a whole word? I tried using the regular expressions but it didn’t work for me. Also even not not using regular expressions, when I try to find a word, it only displays the first occurance of the word, and not the remaining ones when I press Next.

i think i triggered something, by accident

1) press / (or ctrl+f) to bring the find bar, search anything, then close it with esc
2) go to another tab, press / (or ctrl+f) to bring the find bar:
click “highlight all”
cpu goes 99% and i can only kill it

in step 1, you have to search something, “highlight all” is grayed out till you do
in step 2, do NOT search anything, just click “highlight all” directly (which was an accident)

it’s reproducible and does not happen while /Find Bar/ is disabled

it’s a trivial problem but accident happens

Hi!

Thanks for this useful extension which I use at home on Windows XP.

However, when trying to install this at work the following is shown instead of the install button. At work I am running Solaris 9. There are other extensions that work for this system, so it might be that you need to compile for Solaris? Could it be done?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6534
/Find Bar/ is not available for Unknown.

Best Regards,
Daniel

Very nice addon, it would be nice if you could add the option in the view source option. When I watch sources, I like to be able for use regular expression to find stuff rapidly.

Very nice! It’s really necessary and should be Firefox built in.

I love this extension, I’ve been looking for something like it for… well 5 minutes, then I Google’d for it

Regarding whitespace, I’d make a single ‘ ‘ match all consecutive whitespaces except r and n (not sure how those are used on web pages) by default, that is [ ftvu00A0u2028u2029]+
If you ever add Options to /Find bar/, I’d let the user pick among
‘ ‘ single spaces matches
* a single space / /
* all consecutive whitespace but newlines /[ ftvu00A0u2028u2029]+/
* all consecutive whitespace /s+/

After some test with newlines, I’ve found that
<p>this is a test</p>
<p>this is a test</p>
renders to ‘this is a testn this is a test’, that is with an extra ‘ ‘ after the newline - but I have no quick idea about this

Keep up the good work!

I’m having the same results as Boy on OSX 10.4.9. Might this be a windows-only extension? That would be disappointing.

This is fantastic, I’ve been wanting RE support in the find bar for longer than I can remember.

Thanks!

Works brilliantly. Actually, far better than I expected.
Kudos!

I think you should point out that one has to choose the "Regular Expression" checkbox to enable it

Love this addon. Came accross it the other day have been using it since.

Actually used your extension to start ‘playing’ around with my very first addon for Firefox, have extracted the code into it’s own addon now, but it was your xul and js that started me off, and helped me learn stuff.

Rest of what i learnt came from MDC site, but i’m the sort of person who learns from doing / seeing, that’s where your simple addon came in

Double thanks from me

This is a great add-on — very useful. Why don’t you post it on Mozilla’s list of Firefox add-ons?

Excellent idea.

But it crashed my browser. 2.0.0.2 on Windows XP Home.

It froze the browser after typing in ‘^s’, only displayed ^.

Hmmm… doesn’t work for me on Firefox 2.0.0.2 in Ubuntu Edgy Eft.
It installs fine, but doesn’t do anything.
Too bad. Sounds like exactly the kind of thing I’ve been searching for.

Working well for me and very useful; boggles the mind why this is not a standard feature.

Block content: I would submit that HTML block elements be treated as "lines." The current implementation appears to be based on the layout of the source code. In other words, if paragraphs, list items, etc. end, then begin on a new line, the search does not span the block. However, if paragraphs, lists, etc are all on a single line (as on your /Find Bar/ Web page) then the search spans the block elements.

It works, thanks for creating it!