Firefox’s BEYOND ANNOYING Find-as-you-Type Bug
Posted on November 13, 2006 in Asides
(last edited on April 29, 2014 at 1:27 am)
(last edited on April 29, 2014 at 1:27 am)
Every once in a while, I dutifully upgrade Firefox to the next release. Then, I have to again figure out WHY THE @%! that the #&$@! FIND AS YOU TYPE @#!*?! FEATURE gets enabled when I type the ‘ (single quote) key. WHY LORD, WHY? It’s intermittent too. Fortunately, some light has been shed on this (mutter) issue at Adam Messinger’s blog, along with a suggested solution.
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Thanks for the link, Dave. That post is consistently one of my most-visited, even almost a year after I first published it. You’d think they’d eventually fix the bug. I even posted a link to the blog entry on Bugzilla, and got the reply “that’s not a fix.”
Excuse me, but if it fixes the problem for some people, doesn’t that make it a fix? It may not be the fix, but mightn’t this bug have more than one root cause?
Sigh. It’s a pity for such a good piece of software to be burdened with such a small, but massively annoying, bug.
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It’s a very very strange thing to leave in. I’ve noticed the bug most often when I’m impatient to start typing. If I wait 10 seconds or so after loading the page, it seems that it happens less frequently. I wonder if it’s related slow-running javascript, or some other page loading event that delays the turning off of Find as you Type or press ’ to search.