When I press the apostrophe key on my computer while using Firefox it automatically goes to the 'Find' function (equivalent of CTRL + F). How do I turn that off?
It randomly turned itself off while typing this and I didn’t actually do anything noticeable to turn it off.
Observing members:
0
Composing members:
0
8 Answers
When typing in a text box, it’s going to not bring up the “find function”, however when not in a text box, hitting certain keys bring up the find function. This is, I think (based on how I found this out) because in various legacy programs, those various keys brought up search features. ”/” is how I discovered it when I accidentally typed it meaning to search for something.
Also apostrophe searches only for links, and forward slash searches all text. The big difference between Ctrl-F and quickfinds are that the quickfind bar disappears on its own.
This will apparently let you change which keys does this (as well as turn it off entirely): http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/index-en.html#searchkey
That is actually the problem – it is bringing up the find function while I am typing in a text box – it happened when writing an email and when writing a fluther question.
Yeek! Shouldn’t be doing it in a search box. What version of FF are you running?
Very odd—I am as well an ’ has never been a problem…
One bugreport I was reading researching the answer did say that the keys do occassionally misbehave. Try that plugin (it’s near the bottom) and see if they’ll fix it.
Hey! I have the same problem with this happening, even though I’m running the most current version of Firefox. It’s insanely annoying. I can’t get out of it . . . I’m gonna try jamesgecko’s solution as well.
Sometimes the backspace key will take me back to the page I was previously viewing, instead of erasing the character to the left of my cursor.
Annoying.
Answer this question 
This question is in the General Section. Responses must be helpful and on-topic.
Composing members:
0
