Firefox Annoyance

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Its the quick find short cut in firefox.

If i try and put an apostrophe into my sentences within firefox, all i get is quick find popping up at the bottom of my browser. Extremely annoying! Anyone know how to disable it?
 
Close firefox.
Go to

c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\chrome\toolkit.jar\content\global\findBar.js
open that file with winrar, and use change the lines:

const CHAR_CODE_SLASH = “/”.charCodeAt(0);
const CHAR_CODE_APOSTROPHE = “‘”.charCodeAt(0);

to say:

const CHAR_CODE_SLASH = “”.charCodeAt(0);
const CHAR_CODE_APOSTROPHE = “”.charCodeAt(0);

(replace c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox with whichever directory you installed FF to if not default)


nicked shamelessly from here and edited a bit. :p
 
You shouldn't need to do that - if it's happening when you type in a text box, it's a bug. What version are you running?

You can turn off FAYT with Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> General -> Search for text when I start typing, but it probably won't change much.
 
I’ve noticed a similar problem a couple of times where if you press backspace while typing in a text box it loads the previous page. I just restarted the browser and it went away.
 
I’ve noticed a similar problem a couple of times where if you press backspace while typing in a text box it loads the previous page. I just restarted the browser and it went away.

That particular bug is very annoying, especially when you've typed out a long reply. :mad:
 
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