I have some problems with the "search in page"-function
Okey, i'm sorry for my bad english, but I have a really annoying problem. Last week I bought a new iMac and when I downloaded Firefox the problems to search within a page began.
The problems are that if i will try to search for "Jesus" in a page. Firefox only shows up 3/5 "Jesus" and if I will find they two other "Jesus-phrases" I have to scroll down where the phrases are. If they aren't on my screen, they will not show up.. It's really annoying and I use this function to find numbers and it's impossible to work this way. I'll need to find all results in no time.
Yes i press CMD+F to search and press enter (or CMD+G to show the next phrase) but it starts to show the same results again and not these results that's are below on the website.
Thanks for the help.
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This can happen if the page uses a (i)frame to embed content and Firefox isn't scrolling the frame. You can check the via the right-click context menu.
This shouldn't happen on a normal page without frames.
Can you post a link to a publicly accessible page (i.e. no authentication or signing on required) so we can check this behavior?
This is the page I use: http://hottoptv.mms.se/ :)
The problem of the "Next" and "Previous" buttons skipping some non-visible content in a scrolling section on the page will be fixed in Firefox 61. The fix wasn't made in time to get into Firefox 60.
For that page, what do you think about this workaround: override the page style so that instead of a scrolling region, the entire list is visible/searchable.
To do that:
The style rule you need to override is the short height of that section. You can set Firefox to compute the height automatically (and also remove the extra scroll bar that's no longer needed). This is how:
div#listTableScrollContainer {
height: unset !important;
overflow-y: auto !important;
}
You can apply custom style rules to web pages using the Stylus extension (there also are some other extensions such as Stylish and xStyle, or an optional file you can create named userContent.css).
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/styl-us/
After installing Stylus, it should add a button to the toolbar. When you are on a website you want to modify, click the button and then use the link at the bottom to start a new rule. In this case, click on the left part of the domain if all the lists are on pages that match that full domain. This also helps avoid unexpected consequences on other parts of the site.
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Then an editing tab should open where you can paste the style rule and save it. (See attached screenshot.) When you return to the page and reload it, you should see how the rule affects the page.
