Bug#622123: iceweasel does not search text in <select> tags

[Mike Hommey]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 02:56:22PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 01:52:34PM +0200, Arian Sanusi wrote:
> > Package: iceweasel
> > Version: 3.5.18-1
> > Severity: minor
> > Tags: upstream
> > 
> > 
> > iceweasel does not search in text from <select> tags - the value of
> > the option-subtags .
> > 
> > p.ex. see here:  [1]
> > or for why it is actually worth implementing this, see these filters [2]
> > 
> > [1] http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_select_multiple
> > [2] http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Cat=2556109
> 
> Interestingly, this is a feature that was implemented a long time ago.
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252371
> 
> And even more interestingly, it does work, for example, on the bugzilla
> page I just linked. It would be interesting to see why it doesn't on the
> w3schools.com sample.

Forget that last part, it appears the CC list in the bugzilla page is
not a select. At least until you hit a link.

Mike