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Search in page function not work accurately

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Firefox Version: 56.0.2 (64-bit) when I viewing https://pyinstaller.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage.html#options I tried to search in page using build-in method ( Ctrl + F ) , I found some interesting problem shows as below in pictures: ![...](http://picpool-1255373220.cossh.myqcloud.com/Blog_Hexo_CodingNet/2017-11-03_firefox-bug-report-1.png) ![...](http://picpool-1255373220.cossh.myqcloud.com/Blog_Hexo_CodingNet/2017-11-03_firefox-bug-report-2.png) if pictures are not showing try searching "noconsole": when typing only "noconsol", found nothing ：（； but after typing "noconsole", bingo!

weird, and I think it should be fixed.

3x.

Firefox Version: 56.0.2 (64-bit) when I viewing https://pyinstaller.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage.html#options I tried to search in page using build-in method ( Ctrl + F ) , I found some interesting problem shows as below in pictures: ![...](http://picpool-1255373220.cossh.myqcloud.com/Blog_Hexo_CodingNet/2017-11-03_firefox-bug-report-1.png) ![...](http://picpool-1255373220.cossh.myqcloud.com/Blog_Hexo_CodingNet/2017-11-03_firefox-bug-report-2.png) if pictures are not showing try searching "noconsole": when typing only "noconsol", found nothing ：（； but after typing "noconsole", bingo! weird, and I think it should be fixed. 3x.

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Looks that you have "Whole Words" search enabled. If that is enabled then only a full word match gives a result.

Current Firefox versions have a "Whole Words" button and a "Match Case" button to limit the search results.

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cor-el
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Looks that you have "Whole Words" search enabled. If that is enabled then only a full word match gives a result.

Current Firefox versions have a "Whole Words" button and a "Match Case" button to limit the search results.

Modified by cor-el