fix search highlighting on fx51 (#737)

Dimitrios Semitsoglou-Tsiapos · gkatsev · commit e84b28244eac · 2017-03-13T10:50:33.000-04:00
Closes #676
diff --git a/common/content/finder.js b/common/content/finder.js
@@ -271,7 +271,10 @@ var Finder = Module("finder", {
 
         btn.checked = true;
 
-        findbar._setHighlightTimeout();
+        if ("toggleHighlight" in findbar) /* Firefox >= v51 */
+            findbar.toggleHighlight(true);
+        else
+            findbar._setHighlightTimeout();
     },
 
     /**
diff --git a/vimperator/NEWS b/vimperator/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 201x-xx-xx:
     * create README.md
+    * fix search highlighting (hlsearch) in firefox 51
 
 
 2017-02-01:
