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Turn off quick find

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Seriousthree
Seriousthree

In very large pages like my facebook home page if I accidentally press a key the quick find opens and tries to search for it. Not only is this not what I want it loses my location and can irritate immensely. I want to switch this off but cannot find an easy way of doing it. If I am making a post and accidentally click outside the area then continue typing it loses the place I was at, often meaning searching through dozens of threads for my post. I understand this is a useful feature but for many, me included it is more pain than gain.

In very large pages like my facebook home page if I accidentally press a key the quick find opens and tries to search for it. Not only is this not what I want it loses my location and can irritate immensely. I want to switch this off but cannot find an easy way of doing it. If I am making a post and accidentally click outside the area then continue typing it loses the place I was at, often meaning searching through dozens of threads for my post. I understand this is a useful feature but for many, me included it is more pain than gain.

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Hi Seriousthree!

Here are some instructions on how to disable the Quick Find Bar. Hope this helps!

To permanently disable the Quick Find bar :

3-bar menu => Options => General => under 'Browsing':

uncheck : 'Search for text when you start typing'

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jkos77
jkos77

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Hi Seriousthree!

Here are some instructions on how to disable the Quick Find Bar. Hope this helps!

To permanently disable the Quick Find bar :

3-bar menu => Options => General => under 'Browsing':

uncheck : 'Search for text when you start typing'

McCoy
McCoy

The setting in Options => Preferences is for starting a search when you type some text only - it won't disable / (forward slash) or ‘ (single quote).

The best way to close (not disable) the (Quick) Find bar is to press Esc.