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Ancient bug not fixed in Firefox 2.0

Wow, this is annoying. If you've used Firefox, you probably know that from time to time you'll be typing in a regular text box, and typing an apostrophe will bring up the search box. I can't figure out how to make it stop other than click around on junk until it goes away. I can't believe that wasn't fixed in the new version.
Posted: Oct 25 2006, 02:29 PM by Jeff | with 8 comment(s)
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Mladen Mihajlovic said:

Have you ever posted it as a bug?

# October 25, 2006 3:52 PM

FransBouma said:

I think it's some extension or something. I never ever had this (and I type a lot in FF textboxes ;)), however my wife runs into this every day. We too haven't found what causes this, or what prevents it from happening on my machine.

# October 25, 2006 3:55 PM

Wim said:

Can you reproduce it on the same web page all the time? Or does it seem intermittent?

Would be interesting to investigate a little more and then post the details.

# October 25, 2006 3:55 PM

foobar said:

Is that bug still there?

It was claimed to have been fixed:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220900

Ah well.

# October 25, 2006 3:57 PM

Jeff said:

I'm with Franz. I can't predict when it will happen. It appears totally random.

# October 25, 2006 4:06 PM

Daniel Auger said:

This bug has plagues my workstation at work, but I don't remember it ever happening at home. I usually have the two machines on the same version. I do not use any extensions. It is intermittent for me. HOWEVER, I have yet to see the bug rear its head in 2.0.

# October 25, 2006 4:32 PM

James said:

I ran into the same problem when typing in a textarea earlier, and this helped fix the problem. ' and / will still bring up the find dialog, but it shouldn't happen anymore when you're typing in a textarea/box

open about:config in firefox, and search for find. I changed..

   accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar user set integer 0

to...

   accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar default integer 1

# October 25, 2006 6:27 PM

ozczecho said:

hmmm..I have been using FF for a long time and have never come across it. It would be annoying though...

BTW, gee I love the spell checker in FF 2.0 :-)

# October 26, 2006 4:14 AM
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