How do I turn off quick find?
Every time I type an apostrophe, I get a box at the bottom left of the browser that pops up. It's especially annoying that I have that button bound to my push to talk key.
Bonus Question: What the hell is it quickly trying to find? CTL+F pops up a window to search the contents of the current page...
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The ' and / keys activate the quick find bar if your cursor is not in a form control or editable region. If your cursor is in a place that the ' or / could be added, Firefox should just insert the character.
This may not work for you if you need the ' key to trigger an add-on...
I once posted a user script to intercept and discard these keys. You can apply userscripts to pages using an extension like Tampermonkey, Violentmonkey or Greasemonkey (although the new Greasemonkey isn't as backwards compatible to old scripts as the others).
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/13484-prevent-slash-opening-quickfind
So, you're saying that there's no built in option to change the behavior and that an add-on is required to fix it?
I'm not aware of any built-in way to change Firefox keyboard shortcuts OR to disable the quick find feature. Maybe someone else knows a way.
What is the push-to-talk key -- is that a Windows 10 feature?