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Ok, so what is the deal with Firefox? Every now and then I hit some unknown to me set of characters which switches the browser into some special mode or somehow switches the focus even though I'm still typing in a textbox (personally I think it's the latter). The upshot of this is that when I try to type the apostrophe it takes opens the "find" box and the focus moves with it. So I put the cursor back in the textbox and try again. It flips back over to the find box. I can't type an stinking apostrophe. And I can't find anywhere the shortcut that I pressed that will flip it back to normal mode. I even went online and did some searching and I found a solution (involving going into the config and changing a value). This fixes the problem, but man is it one of the most irritating things.
posted by Susan at 8:22 PM
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what was the solution? and what were the last few characters you were typing before it went into the funky mode?
I wish I could figure out which characters it was (I type too fast apparently). The solution I used was to type
about:config
as the url and in the resulting page look for
accessibility.typeaheadfind
and change the value to false. This should disable the find as you type thingy. Seeing as how I type way more than I search I'm going to leave it this way. Looking around on-line it seems that this is a 'feature' not a bug meant to minimize mouse usage. But it's not for me. I also found this site with some helpful tweaks for Firefox.
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