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Status: Archived
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Closed: Aug 14
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OS: Linux
Pri: 3
Type: Bug



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Unable to search & find multiple lines of text with line breaks in Chrome on Linux machines

Project Member Reported by zay@google.com, Apr 20 2016

Issue description

Chrome Version       : 50.0.2661.75
OS Version: 
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release:	14.04
Codename:	trusty

URLs (if applicable) :
Other browsers tested: N/A
  Add OK or FAIL after other browsers where you have tested this issue:
     Safari 5:
  Firefox 4.x: Fail
     IE 7/8/9:

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Go to any site/page in chrome that has multiple lines of text including line breaks
2. Copy and paste all texts with line breaks
3. Do Ctrl F and paste that text into the search & find bar
4. Hit enter to find text

What is the expected result?

The searched text is highlighted.


What happens instead of that?

The searched text is not found

Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if
possible.

When doing search and find (Ctrl F) in Chrome on Linux machines, text inputted into search and find that contain line breaks is unable to be found. This has happened on linux machines & Chromebooks, Checked my mac and it works fine in Chrome but not in Fire Fox.

UserAgentString: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.75 Safari/537.36



 

Comment 1 by rsesek@chromium.org, Apr 20 2016

Components: UI>Browser>FindInPage
Labels: -OS-Mac
Labels: -OS-Chrome
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
I can confirm that this doesn't work... but is it meant to?

Comment 4 by xycao@google.com, May 2 2016

If I use chrome browser on my MAC laptop, it works. Shouldn't it be consistent?

Comment 5 by xycao@google.com, May 2 2016

And It worked a couple month ago on my Linux machine. It is only recently it stopped working.
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Comment 6 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Jun 2 2016

Labels: Hotlist-Google
Status: Archived (was: Untriaged)
Archiving old bugs that haven't been modified in over two years. 

If you feel this issue should still be addressed, feel free to reopen it or to file a new issue. Thanks!

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