Text search in HTML tab doesn't search Javascript tag contents

[David Hollingshead]

I was using Chrome trying to edit Javascript on the fly for testing, and found the function from the element easily enough but found it difficult to actually edit the code, so I opened the page in Firefox and did a search for the same function but it wasn't found in the HTML tab, even though I did find it eventually by expanding the script tag and looking for it. It would only come up in search if I did it in the Script tab, which is missing all color coding and expand/contract for tags. I don't understand why a search for a word that actually is in the HTML tab is not found if it's in a script tag, and why the Script tab shows everything in black and white and HTML tags that can't be expanded or contracted.

Just the inability to find the word in a script tag in the HTML is a severe feature lack when Chrome can find it. The HTML tab should contain all HTML tag content and it should all be searchable. The Script tab I would expect to just show script sources and not also all HTML tags in raw text.

This seems like a major setback to Firebug from Chrome, so is this fixable?

[Sebastian Zartner]

The HTML tab should contain all HTML tag content and it should all be searchable.

Please file a bug for that including a little test case.
 

The Script tab I would expect to just show script sources and not also all HTML tags in raw text.

That was already reported by me in issue 2814.

Btw. Firebug's source is on GitHub and help is always welcome. So feel free to provide patches for these issues. :-)

Sebastian