Quicky Firefox help

[FourWheelDrift]

Occasionally posting on my laptop here I hit a couple of keys by mistake and then my apostrophe key instead of putting one on screen opens the findsearch bar at the bottom of the screen. It only goes back to normal if I close down Firefox. Does anyone know what key combination does it and maybe how to reverse it without closeing FF ?

Additionally my cursor keys no longer work and the forward slash key also opens the find bar. But SHIFT and those keys produce the required ?@ symbols.

PPS. This has also happned before on my desktop PC with normal keyboard.

[TangoAlpha]

FourWheelDrift said:

Occasionally posting on my laptop here I hit a couple of keys by mistake and then my apostrophe key instead of putting one on screen opens the findsearch bar at the bottom of the screen. It only goes back to normal if I close down Firefox. Does anyone know what key combination does it and maybe how to reverse it without closeing FF ?

Esc key?

[FourWheelDrift]

I don't hit the ESC key to make it happen, but just pressing it now it does it, but I cannot turn it off and put it back to normal.

[Platinum]

FourWheelDrift said:

Occasionally posting on my laptop here I hit a couple of keys by mistake and then my apostrophe key instead of putting one on screen opens the findsearch bar at the bottom of the screen. It only goes back to normal if I close down Firefox. Does anyone know what key combination does it and maybe how to reverse it without closeing FF ?

Additionally my cursor keys no longer work and the forward slash key also opens the find bar. But SHIFT and those keys produce the required ?@ symbols.

PPS. This has also happned before on my desktop PC with normal keyboard.

Yeah, I get the same occasionally. As I don't know what buttons I pressed, I just restart FF.

Edited by Platinum on Wednesday 16th May 22:52

[Kinky]

Is it related to memory?

I have very similiar problems - but when my memory is overloaded. Shutting down a few apps fixes it.

K

[FourWheelDrift]

No memory is fine, only have Firefox open and loads free. It's definately when it's a stumbled over key combination.

[Leithen]

Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

[FourWheelDrift]

Leithen said:

Firefox Keyboard Shortcuts

That doesn't help in turning it off though. I want to know how to turn it off when it accidently get's triggered.

Unfortunately doing the same thing twice doesn't turn it off as i thought it might.

Edited by FourWheelDrift on Wednesday 16th May 23:56

[TangoAlpha]

FourWheelDrift said:

I don't hit the ESC key to make it happen, but just pressing it now it does it, but I cannot turn it off and put it back to normal.

I've no idea what you do to open the find bar, but the ESC key is how to close it.

[nickfrp]

download opera.com

[pdV6]

TangoAlpha said:

I've no idea what you do to open the find bar

CTRL+F

[pdV6]

Also, if you're not in a place where you can type text (e.g. if you lose focus from the message posting box in a PH reply) the ' key opens the quickfind bar. As has been noted, ESC closes it or if you leave it alone for a few seconds it closes itself.

[FourWheelDrift]

TangoAlpha said:

FourWheelDrift said:

I don't hit the ESC key to make it happen, but just pressing it now it does it, but I cannot turn it off and put it back to normal.

I've no idea what you do to open the find bar, but the ESC key is how to close it.

Yes I know it closes it, BUT when I press the apostrophe key it opens it again and I can't use apostrophes, the forward slash key, or the cursor keys either. I want to reverse the option.

[FourWheelDrift]

nickfrp said:

download opera.com

I have, I think it's horrible compared to Firefox.

[TangoAlpha]

pdV6 said:

TangoAlpha said:

I've no idea what you do to open the find bar

CTRL+F

Maybe I should have written "I don't know what you do to open the find bar"...I know what I do to open it

[TangoAlpha]

FourWheelDrift said:

TangoAlpha said:

FourWheelDrift said:

I don't hit the ESC key to make it happen, but just pressing it now it does it, but I cannot turn it off and put it back to normal.

I've no idea what you do to open the find bar, but the ESC key is how to close it.

Yes I know it closes it, BUT when I press the apostrophe key it opens it again and I can't use apostrophes, the forward slash key, or the cursor keys either. I want to reverse the option.

I've just pressed the apostrophe key to see what happens and up pops a "quick find" bar...never seen that before. I was thinking you meant the standard "find" bar

Ok, I've done a bit of searching and found this page which gives a solution.

[pdV6]

TangoAlpha said:

Ok, I've done a bit of searching and found this page which gives a solution.

So, basically its a bug that's been fixed. What version of FF are you running, FWD?

[FourWheelDrift]

V2.0.0.3

Although maybe this thread of mine can perhaps add to the annoyance - www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t=385108

I've lost the ability to change the close buttons on the tabs, even though the correct option is in the About:config section and I cannot stop the download window (when you select "Download" from the tools menu) from displaying everything I download.