277125 - Use Ctrl-Shift-F to close an already open find toolbar

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Find Toolbar, enhancement)

Description

[Ian Macfarlane]

I agree that many people want to surf with the find bar open, however for those
wanting to close it, having to press ctrl-f then reach up for the escape key is
really quite a hassle.

I think that using ctrl-shift-f to close the find bar if it is open (regardless
of whether it has focus, and only to close it, not open it) solves the usability
issue for people like me who find the current method to close the find toolbar
clunky and unintuitive. This also doesn't affect those who surf with the find
toolbar open most of the time.

Comment 1

[Ian Macfarlane]

See also bug 250587 (this is not a dup of that bug).

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

This would be a partial solution at best, since GTK2 eats that keybinding. 
(Ctrl-Shift 0-9,A-F are used to enter hex data for Unicode characters)

As a note, if you use the option for find as you type, the bar closes
automatically after a few seconds.