Find dialog populates text across all windows with the find dialog open
Reported by
toltma...@gmail.com,
Dec 7 2017
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.94 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Open new window 2. Press ctrl/cmd + f 3. Type text into dialog 4. Open new window 5. Position new window so you can see the find dialog in window 1 6. Using find dialog in window 2, type text 7. Observe that the content in the find dialog in window 1 has been replaced with window 2 content What is the expected behavior? That it would behave similar to incognito mode, where it is detached and the find dialog in window 1 would retain the content that was typed within it. What went wrong? I believe the issue is masked/caused by the feature of the find dialog retaining the last searched content. Did this work before? N/A Chrome version: 62.0.3202.94 Channel: n/a OS Version: OS X 10.13.1 Flash Version:
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Dec 7 2017
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Dec 7 2017
It does not behave the same way in incognito mode. Are you suggesting the find function is an OS feature and not the browser?
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Dec 7 2017
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "sdy@chromium.org" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label. For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
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Dec 8 2017
It's a *mixture* of an OS feature and a browser feature. Chrome does not use the system-provided UI for Find, which it could, but the content of the field is shared among open apps: type a phrase into Chrome's Find field, then switch to a TextEdit or Safari window with the Find bar visible. It'll immediately grab the value from Chrome (and vice versa). If I had to guess, I'd say that Chrome incognito windows opt out of this sharing because try to avoid leaking state and it might be surprising if Find leaked to other windows. Maybe incognito windows and tabs should share the value among themselves, but not globally. I'd accept that as desirable behavior :). Let me know if you have any followup questions/thoughts.
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Dec 8 2017
Fair enough. Enjoy.
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Dec 8 2017
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "sdy@chromium.org" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label. For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
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Dec 8 2017
If there's a better behavior (that still respects platform conventions), we're open to it. Cheers. |
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Comment 1 by meh...@chromium.org
, Dec 7 2017