04-16-2005

Firefox/Wiki Users Rejoice

I have been a big fan and supporter of Firefox for a while now. I love being able to customize, customize, customize. I’m also a frequent user of wikis and blogs. Unfortunately, Firefox versions since 0.9.3 have all had a bug which kept the find feature from working properly inside text boxes, like the ones used to edit wikis and blogs. As a result, I’ve been using Firefox 0.9.3 for a while now and holding off on upgrading.

I’ve been watching Bugzilla, and it doesn’t look like the bug is going to be fixed anytime soon. Fortunately, someone created an extension that circumvents the problem by making the find feature work the way it did in previous versions. So, I’m finally getting around to upgrading and checking out some of the newer extensions that aren’t compatible with older versions of Firefox.

Update: I spoke too soon. The extension above does solve the problem of searching in text-boxes, but it also causes some problems with the “Find Again” function. Overall, I consider it an improvement, but it still has some kinks that need to be worked out.

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