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Searching within a message using slash fails the first time

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Mikey
Mikey

(If this is a duplicate, please feel free to delete. I posted last night, but the question appears to have vanished from the forum.)

I'm using Thunderbird 151.0.1. After 151.0.0 was installed, the ability to press "/" ("slash") to search while viewing a message was broken. The slash is ignored, and following keystrokes are then acted upon.

If a search is initiated by pressing Ctrl+F, subsequent searches can be started with a slash. It's only when the first search is done that the slash is ignored.

I've been using Thunderbird since the beginning, so starting a search with a slash is in my muscle memory. As a result, I've inadvertently marked or archived or starred messages, navigated to the next thread or next unread message, etc.

Looking at the release notes, I see that a search function was fixed in 151.0.0. I wonder if this is related to that fix?

In any event, can "press slash to start a search in the message window" be restored? ...thanks!

(If this is a duplicate, please feel free to delete. I posted last night, but the question appears to have vanished from the forum.) I'm using Thunderbird 151.0.1. After 151.0.0 was installed, the ability to press "/" ("slash") to search while viewing a message was broken. The slash is ignored, and following keystrokes are then acted upon. If a search is initiated by pressing Ctrl+F, subsequent searches can be started with a slash. It's only when the first search is done that the slash is ignored. I've been using Thunderbird since the beginning, so starting a search with a slash is in my muscle memory. As a result, I've inadvertently marked or archived or starred messages, navigated to the next thread or next unread message, etc. Looking at the release notes, I see that a search function was fixed in 151.0.0. I wonder if this is related to that fix? In any event, can "press slash to start a search in the message window" be restored? ...thanks!

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Matt
Matt
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you mean this post? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1585313

Mikey
Mikey Question owner

Yep, that's it, but no matter how I searched, I couldn't find it.

Since there's now two threads, can an admin merge them or delete one of them?

Matt
Matt
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I have spent the last 15 or so minutes looking for a bug that might have changed the Find action (Hours ago now I have not had time to look in here since this morning.) . I have the ESR version of in installed. 140.11.1 when I activate search using Ctrl+F in that everything works fine. Whet I use the / the pane opens sans any thing but the search box.

But if I use the daily build, 153 / does not work at all, only Ctrl+F so there has to have been a bug fix that affected it. Probably in the Mozilla Firefox platform part of the code, but I am not finding it.

Mikey
Mikey Question owner

As far as I know, 151.0.1 (64-bit) is the current release version.

If I press Ctrl+F, then immediately press <Esc>, I'm then able to use "/" for that message. If I go to another message, then I have Ctrl+F again to be able to search.

In Firefox (151.0.3), I can press "/" and start a search immediately (no Ctrl+F required, unless the focus is a text entry box).

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