[vox-tech] Re: vox-tech Digest, Vol 9, Issue 2

[Daniel A. Lorca-Martinez]

Norm,

Actually, the Mozilla Foundation folks are all fairly geeky-which 
explains the vi command.  On the other hand, this same text search 
feature is available using Control-F (Or Command-F on Macs).  Though 
that doesn't excuse the lack of documentation you mention for this 
particular feature...

-dan

>Concerning Firefox:
>
>I've been using it almost exclusively for several months now (I mainly
>used Mozilla before that), and I really like it.  My complaint, though,
>is that the documentation is awful.
>
>For example, I discovered by accident that one can do a text search
>within the currently-displayed page by using the vi `/' command!  Yep,
>hit the slash key as one would do in vi, and Firefox will search for the
>text you type.  In fact, it does it incrementally, and stops you if
>you've typed so much that the string doesn't exist.  And, instead of an
>annoying popup window for the search, a search box appears WITHIN the
>current window, at the bottom. 
>
>All that is nice, but I discovered it purely by accident.  I'm so used
>to using the / key to do searches in vim that I unthinkingly did so in
>FF, and thus stumbled onto this cool feature.  But it does not seem to
>be in the documentation.  In fact, as far as I know, there IS no full
>documentation even available.  (Please correct me if I am wrong on
>this.)
>
>One thing that FF does much better than the old Mozilla or Konqueror is
>the installation of plug-ins, which FF partially automates.  But it
>still is poor relative to IE or for that matter Opera.  And even though
>FF has a plug-ins help page, which IS rather helpful, it is still lacking.
>
>Norm
>
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