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Typeahead function in search field inside Facebook does not work in Firefox 13.0

AharontheniceFirefoxmensch
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Until 3 or 4 days ago, cool typeahead function inside search field inside Facebook always worked in Firefox. Now since 4 days ago, it does not work. But the typeahead function works inside search field inside Facebook on Internet Explorer BUT I prefer to use Firefox and do NOT want to switch to IE!!!

Is there anything I can do to regain that function?

Aharon

Until 3 or 4 days ago, cool typeahead function inside search field inside Facebook always worked in Firefox. Now since 4 days ago, it does not work. But the typeahead function works inside search field inside Facebook on Internet Explorer BUT I prefer to use Firefox and do NOT want to switch to IE!!! Is there anything I can do to regain that function? Aharon

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David Tenser
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Hi there, could you clarify what you mean with "inside search field inside Facebook"? Maybe you could provide the exact steps you're taking?

If it suddenly stopped working unrelated to a recent Firefox upgrade, it is likely that this is due to changes made in the code of the Facebook website itself, not in Firefox. If you believe this new behavior started with Firefox 13.0, could you verify this by downloading an older version of Firefox again (e.g. 12.0: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/12.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%2012.0.exe)?

AharontheniceFirefoxmensch
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Shalom DJST,

Thank you for reply.

The behavior did not start with Firefox 13. I actually upgraded to Firefox 13 in hope it would solve the problem that happened in previous older versions. It failed to solve the problem.

It had been working for 3 years on Firefox until last or 2 weeks ago.

Regarding search, I mean by "type-ahead" which is that FB's search field offers a drop down list of possible search results as I type. For example, if I type S, it will show list of all people or groups with first letter S. If I type sk, it will show list of anything such as people or groups that starts with Sk, and so on. This is most valuable time saving technique to look for my pals to say hi or groups that I do not belong to but want to read their news or info.

I think it is Facebook's programming problem but if I ask them, they will point to Firefox's fault by saying that it works for my Internet Explorer but not for Firefox and I do not want to get involved into tug war between Facebook and Mozilla.

I am just bummed that the valuable time saving search method no longer exists on Firefox.

Regards,

Aharon

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