May 08 2006
Yahoo! Search Open Shortcuts
I discovered today that Yahoo! Search has a concept of open shortcuts similar to Gerald’s Do The Right Thing script or Mozilla’s Smart Keywords.
Pretty cool!
To see which ones are available to you, try !list.
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.
