Viewport size changes when "disactivating" find-bar causing page reflow/relayout?

["j t" <mark473 gmail com>]

Hi,

A question about a strange phenomemon I've witnessed (intermittently) for years:

Sometimes, when I search for something on a web page (using ctrl-f to
"activate" the find-bar), clicking on a link on the page makes the
page reflow/relayout, and as a consequence, the link moves.

I (personally) don't like this behaviour, so I'm trying to find out
how I can stop it happening.

I think (but I'm not sure) that the page reflows because clicking the
link on the page "disactivates" the find-bar. I'm not 100% certain
about this, because I've tried to find a set of circumstances which
consistently trigger the reflow, but I'm not having much luck :-(

I have a few questions:

a) Has anyone else experienced this "reflow" which moves links on the
page as you click on them, or is it just me?

b) Is there anyway that I can either make the find-bar a permanent
fixture, or alternatively, find without having the find-bar appear, so
that I can spend a month using epiphany without a
dynamically-appearing-and-disappearing find-bar. I could then see
whether this makes the (intermittent) reflows stop happening...

c) Linked to b) above, I've tried using type-ahead-find (it says it's
enabled in about:config) but it doesn't seem to do much. Is this known
as not working?

Thanks, Jaime
(epiphany 2.22.1.1 on current Debian Lenny)