Firefox has two ways to search for text. The one you probably know about is by hitting Ctrl+F which pops a bar at the bottom to enter the search text. Along with the search field there are Next and Previous buttons to search up and down the page as well as a Highlight all and Match case checkboxes. All very useful options.
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The second way to search in Firefox is for when you can't be bothered to hit two keys on the keyboard and require less powerful searching because you know what you're looking for only exists once on the page. Hitting the / or ' keys invokes the Quick Find bar which looks a lot like the other Find bar but has none of those crazy advanced options to get in the way.
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The only reason to use Quick Find that I can fathom is that the dialog closes automatically so you don't have to hunt and search for that hidden Esc key or be confused by that X icon or any of those advanced options. If you are a unfrozen caveman, this is probably the way you want to search.
(I might have to address the Done text in those screen shots in a future post)
5 comments:
I use Quick Find rather than Find, because since Quick Find must obviously be quick, than Find must obviously be slow.
You should add Quick Tweet to Bitter.
While still not-intuitive (and they have plenty of horizontal space for in-line "help" text), the feature is actually pretty cool. http://twitter.com/aaronlerch/statuses/816540122
how do i cancel the 'quick find'?
how do i cancel "quick find"?
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