[Googlebar] Googlebar: feedback from Tyke

[notes at mozdev.org]

http://googlebar.mozdev.org/feedback.html#c163

This is a feature request. 

When pressing the highlighter button, all keywords present on the page are highlighted. 

On the IE version, if a new keyword is typed into the GoogleBar, that keyword is not highlighted until the highlighter button is depressed and pressed again. There is a very good reason for this behavior...

If you try to do this on the Mozilla/Firefox version, the browser slows to a crawl as it searches-for and highlights each and every letter of the new term that is being typed in. For example, if I type "cat", it will first try to highlight all c's that it can find, followed by all instances of ca's, followed by all cat's. You can imagine how slow the browser gets on a long page during those first single and double-character searches.

This forces the user to unclick the highlighter, enter the new term, and then click the highlighter again or risk waiting a minute for the browser to do its search.

I would recommend having the Mozilla/Firefox version of the GoogleBar react in the same way as the IE version, for the sake of consistency and simplicity.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1