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Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:Oh fucking great, firefox has suddenly decided that ' should bring up the damn 'find' dialog instead of, you know, ACTUALLY TYPING THE CHARACTER '!

I swear, why do I always get the extremely weird and excessively stupid bugs!?

Restart. I had this happen once, AFTER CLICKING ONE OF YOUR LINKS, and restarting FF fixed it.

If that doesn't work, I hope you have a recent profile backup.

Tried restarting FF, tried rebooting. IT WON"T GO AWAY! (hmm that's funny it doesn't do it while entering text in a form anymore!)

It started right after I clicked a Youtube link.

Okay, it appears the issue has resolved itself in an adequate manner. I'll remember to make use of the apparent 'feature' I've discovered only after it malfunctioned.

For future reference, before calling something an 'excessively stupid bug', hit help -> help contents, and take a look, especially at the keyboard shortcuts section. You might learn something new.

The problem appears to be that in *very* rare cases, the browser doesn't recognise the user is typing in a text form and continues to trigger the search box whenever ' is typed. I don't know what causes this, but it's definately a bug, not a feature.

Bounty wrote:

For future reference, before calling something an 'excessively stupid bug', hit help -> help contents, and take a look, especially at the keyboard shortcuts section. You might learn something new.

The problem appears to be that in *very* rare cases, the browser doesn't recognise the user is typing in a text form and continues to trigger the search box whenever ' is typed. I don't know what causes this, but it's definately a bug, not a feature.

That's the 'Excessively Stupid Bug' part, especially when it refuses to fix after a restart, forcing me to reboot the whole machine.

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