diff --git a/crates/snowbound/src/main.rs b/crates/snowbound/src/main.rs
index e0a3b8fa5a15cc63b45a5da36c2199088df38e95..5aab659e493d1bb8a6f24c17f64e19de201386d9 100644
--- a/crates/snowbound/src/main.rs
+++ b/crates/snowbound/src/main.rs
@@ -2886,11 +2886,22 @@ impl State {
                 ..Spec::default()
             },
         );
+        // Finding widens the box over the tab row's spare room, for the match count beside
+        // the query.
+        let wide = if finding {
+            PAGE_LIST + 120.0
+        } else {
+            PAGE_LIST
+        };
+        let width = ui::Extent {
+            size: ui::Size::Pixels(wide),
+            strictness: PAGE_LIST / wide,
+        };
         for folded in [false, true].into_iter().take(if finding { 1 } else { 2 }) {
             self.ui.open(
                 folded,
                 Spec {
-                    size: [if folded { children() } else { px(PAGE_LIST) }, px(TAB_ROW)],
+                    size: [if folded { children() } else { width }, px(TAB_ROW)],
                     pad: [0.0, (TAB_ROW - ui::shell::TOOL) / 2.0],
                     gap: 3.0,
                     ..Spec::default()
diff --git a/crates/snowbound/src/search.rs b/crates/snowbound/src/search.rs
index 711e730efd8f1c4c65a0bcc615af76854bcc2c5d..97e813e5fde4f8d7ac0a72f442cbe9607ce5533f 100644
--- a/crates/snowbound/src/search.rs
+++ b/crates/snowbound/src/search.rs
@@ -1144,7 +1144,15 @@ impl State {
         self.ui.leaf(
             "count",
             Spec {
-                size: [fit(), px(ui::shell::TOOL)],
+                // It shortens once the query has given up all it may.
+                size: [
+                    ui::Extent {
+                        size: ui::Size::Text,
+                        strictness: 0.5,
+                    },
+                    px(ui::shell::TOOL),
+                ],
+                overflow: ui::Overflow::Ellipsis,
                 inset: [0.0, 3.0, 0.0, 3.0],
                 text: Some(&label),
                 fill: Some(draw::srgb(0xff, 0xe0, 0x5a)),
@@ -1177,7 +1185,15 @@ impl State {
             &mut self.search.query,
             "",
             Spec {
-                size: [fill(), px(ui::shell::TOOL)],
+                // Wider than the box ever is, so it takes all there is, yet keeps 72 for a
+                // few words of the query.
+                size: [
+                    ui::Extent {
+                        size: ui::Size::Pixels(1000.0),
+                        strictness: 72.0 / 1000.0,
+                    },
+                    px(ui::shell::TOOL),
+                ],
                 pad: [4.0, 0.0],
                 role: Some(Role::SearchInput),
                 ..Spec::default()
diff --git a/crates/snowbound/tests/replay.rs b/crates/snowbound/tests/replay.rs
index 3b4a763783268786a877db12db6ba354fdc9214e..5e19e767a0881677c33a52b734045914410cec8e 100644
--- a/crates/snowbound/tests/replay.rs
+++ b/crates/snowbound/tests/replay.rs
@@ -369,3 +369,23 @@ fn renaming_a_section_from_its_tab_types_into_the_sidebar_at_once() {
         "{typed}"
     );
 }
+
+/// Finding on the page leaves the query room beside the match count: a press just past
+/// where the count ends lands in the field.
+#[test]
+fn the_find_bar_keeps_room_for_the_query() {
+    let scratch = Scratch::new("find-room");
+    let notebook =
+        Path::new(env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR")).join("../../corpus/cross-container/candidate");
+    let mut steps = vec!["modifiers command", "key f", "modifiers", "wait 200"];
+    steps.extend(["type Alpha", "wait 400", "move 600 600", "press", "release"]);
+    steps.extend(["wait 200", "move 1000 52", "press", "release", "wait 200"]);
+    steps.extend(["type zz", "wait 200", "accessibility found"]);
+    let [found] = replay(&scratch, Some(&notebook), &steps)
+        .try_into()
+        .unwrap();
+    assert!(
+        found.contains(r#"SearchInput "Find on Page" = "Alphazz" [focused]"#),
+        "{found}"
+    );
+}