The quickfind feature in Firefox has been annoying me today: I wasn’t able to type apostrophes in my blog form, and it also affected cut-and-paste.
So I turned it off.
- In Firefox go to about:config
- Right-click and select New > Boolean
- Enter searchkeys.disable.all
- Set it to true
Jobs a good ‘un!
That’s good stuff. Don’t know how FF decided to step backwards to enable this annoying feature. Thanks for the help!
This is making me want to ditch FF. I did the about:config entry, but it keeps coming back. I check about:config and it is set to true. I set it to false and then back to true and it is off again until I restart the browser – then it is screwy again. (for the reader`s benefit, I tried to use the apostrophe twice while writing this entry – arrow keys and copy-paste don`t work or the slash aaah I gotta stop typing. This is annoying the hell out of me.)
edit>preferences
under the advanced ‘general’ tab is a checked box that reads “search for text when i start typing”. un clicking that will disable quick find.
This worked for me, but it was already off. I toggled it on, clicked ok, then toggled it off, and clicked ok, and it works now =)
I wasn’t happy that I couldn’t use contractions, thanks, good sir.
Not for me it doesn’t
For me (Windows XP Professional SP3) that setting is under “Tools > Options…” rather than “Edit > Preferences”.
(Is Edit > Preferences a Mac option?)
I guess that feature was moved into the options/preferences in a later version than the one I documented here.