On 12/19/2004 09:10 AM, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Sam Halliday wrote: > >> for anyone who has thunderbird installed, they will notice that when >> you search for an item in the search bar, a little button appears >> which allows you to clear the field... is there an extension to >> firefox which enables the same feature in its search bar? as it is >> very irritating having to manually clear the search bar every time. >> >> cheers, >> Sam > > > Hi Sam, > I just use ctl-f which opens the search box if it's not already open. It > highlights any text in the box if it's already open so anything I type > replaces what's highlighted. It shifts focus to the search box as well > so even if the box is on the main Firefox browser window ctl-f will get > you straight to the search box. I'm using KDE and ctl-f is the search > command used in KDE apps anyway. Isn't that easier and quicker than > using a button. > Cheers, > Jonathan
Jonathan and Sam,
For searching *within* a web page in firefox, there's also find as you type.
Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced or about:config -> accessibility.typeaheadfind
For searching *within* a message in thunderbird, there's also mozilla-thunderbird-typeaheadfind package for similar functionality.
Regards, Ralph
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