I’ve searched the help base and the forum and can’t find any mention of this.
I get the annoying-to-me “Quick Find” search bar a lot at the bottom of my screen, when I begin to type something in a form online or other times when I haven’t requested “quick find” (not that I know how to start it). I want to DISABLE it. I am perfectly happy with my CTRL + F find function, which I use intentionally and doesn’t just pop up and accept my typing without my permission.
I don’t know of any way to disable it, but I’ve never had it intercept me when filling out a form, or indeed at any time. I had to deliberately click outside of a form and start typing in an inappropriate spot to get it to appear, in order to confirm what you’re talking about. I’d never seen it before.
If you don’t start typing in the wrong spot, there’s apparently no problem. I gather you do that a lot? There may be an add-on that disables it, but I’ve never looked for one, so I don’t know.. This is behaviour inherited from Firefox, so you will probably have better luck asking on their forum.
No, I don’t type things in the wrong spots a lot lol. It happens also when I’m trying to use the CTRL ++ and CTRL ± to zoom text in and out. Well since you don’t know any way to turn the idiotic thing off, I’ll try the Firefox forums. Thanks anyway.
I don’t think the Find Bar should be that annoying. In fact, I think it’s a nice tool, very handy indeed. For example, when I’m reading some long texts, like the Argentina entry at Wikipedia and I wanna find quickly a specific topic inside that article, I just start typing the word Piazzolla and I got a short reference about him (of course, if I need more deep information, I just search for the Astor Piazzolla entry at Wikipedia then). The Ctrl + F is a more advanced method yet, that’s right. You can go to the next/previous match, or highlight all matches, or even do a “match case” with this method.
Oh, you don’t care about what I think… Sorry.
How do I turn off this “Quick Find” function?
Really easy. If you want to disable the Find Bar automatic access, run CometBird, go to Tools > Options… > Advanced > General tab > Accessibility section > and uncheck the Search for text when I start typing box. Click on the OK button and that’s it.
I get the annoying-to-me “Quick Find” search bar a lot at the bottom of my screen, when I begin to type something in a form online or other times when I haven’t requested “quick find” (not that I know how to start it).
This happens when a page had not load fully and you start typing before the cursor begins to blink into a form and before the page finishes loading, like the Username form at the Gmail log in webpage or Google itself. This ain’t a CometBird issue, but a connection issue. It happens when your network connection could be overloaded just a few seconds, specially when loading SSL webpages. This should not happen often. If it happens often to you, you should call your ISP and ask them what’s going on.
Thanks for the welcome and the easy instructions to turn off the “quick find.” Sure I care what you think; I might turn it back on and see if it’s useful in long artlices, as you suggested. Thanks also for the info about pages loading; if it happens frequently, I will let my ISP know.
Of course, if YOU are the one overloading your connection with a bittorrent transfer in the background, you might not want to complain to the ISP about it.
Sorry. 