Adam, maybe you could play with making the dialog non-modal?

*Mass-change: Move WikiEditor bugs to component and remove blocker bug where*

Still no progress on this?

How is the user supposed to do repetitive changes to wikipages?

• The tool doesn't let him to edit the page without closing the box;
• If he close it, then the text which was selected by the search box won't be selected anymore;
• If he uses "Replace all" instead, then the browser hungs up because of its slowness? (bug 23510)

These problems adds lots of unnecessary clicks to these kind of tasks which the 'search and replace' feature is supposed to help editors with.

Thehelpfulonewiki wrote:

Reassign to default per bug 37789

Done in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/17654

Anyone have a smart CSS check to differentiate between modal and non modal jquery dialogs ? Cause we might want to add a black border around that dialog to raise contrast a bit.

(In reply to comment #5)

Done in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/17654

Merged.