[Mediawiki-l] [OT] Unable to search within an edit box in Firefox (solution)

[Sy Ali]

Somewhat off-topic, but maybe another editor out there could use this tip.


This bug has plagued me for a very long time now, and so I finally
broke down and did a some searching.  Through the hwll that is
bugzilla I finally found the right bug report:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252371

And within it was the solution.. using an extension which reverts the
find functionality to the older, working, version:
http://s93731204.onlinehome.us/firefox/retrofind.html

So if any of you are bothered by not being able to search through your
page when you're editing, do check out that extension and visit the
bug report to vote on it.


For search and replace functionality, try the search text area
bookmarklet:  http://wargers.org/home.hccnet.nl/bookmarklets/searchtextarea.htm



This is one of a bunch of things I need to insert into firefox to work
around various programmer choices.. but 1.5 is working nicely.  I
think that this is the last outstanding issue I have with firefox. 
I'm glad to be able to do regular editing again, without resorting to
an external editor just for searching.  =p