334084 - ' Key opens find function

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Keyboard Navigation, defect)

Description

[ors_kar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2

When the : ' key is pressed, when not typing in a form/just browsing, the Find Function (the same one accessed from the Ctrl + F command) appears. Doesn't seem to be a way to disable this. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure not in a form or address bar, in normal page browsing
2. Press the : ' key which on my keyboard is also the: @ key when shift is pressed.
3. The find bar should appear like Ctrl + F is pressed

Actual Results:  
Find function appears.

Expected Results:  
Nothing, unless the key is somehow allocated as another find shortcut.

Occurs with any key and happens to a few other users I have spoken to on a separate forum.

Comment 1

[Mark Pilgrim (inactive)]

Yeah, it's supposed to do that.  No, there's no way to disable it.

Comment 2

[jeremy_lupoli]

"It's supposed to do that" can't be the final word on this.  If you minimize the window, then remaximize, it works fine.  This a fluke, not a "supposed to."  And it's annoying as heck to people who have it.

Comment 3

[Rob Dinsmore]

This is part of FF randomly going into carat browsing mode.  It happens to me all the time.  I get really annoyed by it when typing in a form.  I have posted a few times in the forums but nobody seems to care.

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