More firefox crap...

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2005-12-27 10:55am

Typing, and suddenly the "find" action thinggy (the thing Ctrl+F does) pops up and fucks things up. How do I fix this?

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2005-12-27 11:06am

Make sure you don't accidentally click outside the input field while typing. The Find function is triggered by the apostrophe key while not typing in an input box (such as the Quick Reply field).

Mad · Post by **Mad** » 2005-12-27 05:58pm

Bounty wrote:Make sure you don't accidentally click outside the input field while typing. The Find function is triggered by the apostrophe key while not typing in an input box (such as the Quick Reply field).

I've found, though, that in some rare cases, there's a bug where Firefox gets its focus stuck somewhere and doesn't seem to want to let the user change focus. When that happens, you can click in a text input field, then start typing and the "find" box pops up because, as far as Firefox is concerned, you are somewhere else.

The focus can even be stuck on a different tab. Closing and opening the browser is a quick fix, but enough playing around will unlock it. I haven't figured out exactly what needs to be done to unstick the focus, though.