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Main Area and Open Discussion => General Software Discussion => Topic started by: Curt on June 15, 2012, 10:28 AM
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I am getting really tired with Firefox's Quick Find being activated whenever I use the Shift button. Why did Mozilla even give this feature a hotkey? Quick Find will be working once the user starts typing (anywhere outside a writer's area), so it doesn't need any hotkey at all!
:mad:
Please tell me how to remove this hotkey from Firefox/Waterfox Quick Find, if possible.
:tellme:
Edit
: Due to confusing I must clarify that I mean, "Shift+whatever".
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Firefox's Quick Find being activated whenever I use the Shift button.
-Curt
What are you talking about???? Been using FF for 6+ years now, and not once has Shift ever lead me into any find-mode? Does some plug-in you're using add this feature?
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ehh... I should of course had said something like "Shift+whatever".
:-[
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Oh, that's the default Quick-find feature I've come to love and like over the years :up: and isn't liminted to Shift+something, even just typing "something" does that quick-find thing :)
It can easily be disabled from the Extra/Options/Advanced/General settings page, second checkbox (dunno what your translation is, smt like "search for text when starting to type" (roughly translated from my localized FF :-[)
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Why did Mozilla even give this feature a hotkey? Quick Find will be working once the user starts typing (anywhere outside a writer's area), so it doesn't need any hotkey at all!
-Curt
I like the Quick Find feature. I hate the Shift+something hotkey. In the settings I can only disable the feature, not just the hotkey.
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Strange, for as long as I've used Firefox the default Quick Find key has always been '/' which you have the option to turn off under Options->Advanced->General so that, as Ath said, it starts searching when you type.
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If Quick Find is capturing your keys/typing-ahead, then you can alter the Quick Find settings via the about:config page.
You need to know which settings to change in about:config though.
I googled "disable Quick Find in about:config" and found some good guidelines - e.g., here: How To Disable Firefox Quick Find (http://tristram.squarespace.com/home/2007/10/6/how-to-disable-firefox-quick-find.html)
From experience, if you play around with the about:config settings you can pretty much tweak anything in Firefox. When you have made a change, the line of settings becomes emboldened.
If you want to undo the user changes, just double-click the emboldened settings.
I always take care in about:config because you can change/restore settings leading to unintended consequences if you alter the "wrong" ones by mistake.