May 02 2006
Firefox find bar auto-hiding
After trying to figure out the problem of my find bar not disappearing by itself for the past 2 days, I thought that I’d document the result of my research.
There are several ways to search for text in Firefox:
- Type-ahead find: just start typing and it looks for the text incrementally
- By hitting the
/or'key: the find bar appears and you can start typing your search - By hitting
Ctrl+F: again, the find bar appears and you can start typing your search
If you stop searching for something, the find bar will disappear after a preset amount of time (see the accessibility.typeaheadfind.timeout setting), but only for the first two ways of searching. If you search with Ctrl+F, the find bar will not disappear.
This is a little weird that it behaves differently depending on which way you call the find bar. The Hide Find Bar extension will however make the auto-hiding work for all 3 methods.
