Problem with Firefox and Ctrl+F

[Merlyn3D]

When I hit Ctrl+F, the bar at the bottom pops up but when I put anything in it, it doesn't find it, even when I'm looking at it on the page. Has anyone had this problem and know how to fix it?

 

[Sunner]

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.

 

[Merlyn3D]

That doesn't work, already tried, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, I don't know why it's inconsistent.

 

[rh71]

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 ?!

 

[dolph]

hate to resurrect an old thread, but this has been annoying me forever now. is there any hope for a fix?

 

[dolph]

no one else is plagued by this? :-/

 

[EmperorRob]

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.

 

[programmer]

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?

 

[dolph]

virtually every page, including ones on anandtech. am i really the only one?

 

[HN]

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.