Jun
22
2009
| Firefox has a great search feature based on Command-F (Mac) or Control-F (Windows). |
| You get a cute little text box at the bottom of the screen which allows you to search the whole page. |
| Subsequently Command-G works just fine to take you down through the page. |
| Just ‘ (apostrophe) alone will bring up the Quick Find box. It looks almost the same but isn’t. Quick Find only searches URLs (a nice extra almost undocumented feature). |
| If you want to do a Quick Find in all the text you need to use / (forward slash). |
| You can get caught in an edit box (think Gmail or forums) and be unable to type an apostrophe. |
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Type about:config in the address bar to access Firefox’s hidden preferences and toggle “searchkeys.disable.all” to true
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| I haven’t decided whether to leave the QuickFind on (now that I know how it works). I certainly don’t think Quick Find should be on by default. |
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Comments | tags: firefox, shortcuts | posted in Software, Web Development
May
26
2009
I love the Ctrl+Shift+T function to reopen your accidentally closed tabs in Firefox and Google Chrome. That’s the other thing that Chrome did right – used intuitive shortcut keys based on good industry standards (ie: Mozilla).
Comments | tags: chrome, firefox, shortcuts | posted in Tech Opinion, Tech Tips
