Q: If I Ctrl + F, the bar appears at the bottom but when I hit something in it, does not find it, even when Im looking at it on the page. Has anyone had this problem and knows how to fix it?
Re:Do a search for "compreg.dat" (it should be in your firefox profile folder). make a backup of it and delete the original. restart firefox (compreg.dat will be recreated). report back.
Re:virtually every page, including ones on anandtech. am i really the only one?
Re:Can you post a sample website and steps-to-reproduce the issue? Maybe it is a FRAME or IFRAME issue — that is, Firefox is only searching the current frame?
Re:I just enable the "start finding as you type" option and I never hit Ctrl-F. It used to bug me but this option makes it behave more like their default options for Linux.
Re:no one else is plagued by this? :-/
Re:hate to resurrect an old thread, but this has been annoying me forever now. is there any hope for a fix?
Re:another problem with the find feature (type as you find) is… on 2 occasions between last night and just now, I would be typing something like I am right now and suddenly it would think I'm doing a find and stop-prompt me that it's not found… I click back in the editor here and start typing again… it takes the 1st letter, then thinks the 2nd-character-onward is part of a find. I had to keep doing this over and over until my message was complete. WTF ?! :confused:
Re:That doesn't work, already tried, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, I don't know why it's inconsistent.
Re:Try clicking somewhere in the table/frame where you wanna seek, above the text(that is, at the top of the text if you don't know where it is).
The search function has been a long standing annoyance under Mozilla/Firefox for me, it flat out sucks.
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