In Mozilla (or Firebird) you can hit "/" and then start typing, and it finds what you're typing in in the page! Did everyone else know this apart from me? I knew you could just start typing and find text in a link, but I didn't know about the "/" to find any text in a page at all. That's really, really useful.
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DeanG
Jesse Ruderman
There’s UI for this pref in Advanced, Keyboard Navigation. Firebird also has UI for this pref as of a few days ago.
Robert Wall
The preference that Jarno is referring to is:accessibility.typeaheadfind.linksonly
Setting this to false starts searching all the text and not just links by default.
The easiest way to change this preference (and all “advanced” preferences) is using about:config
To constrain your searches to links only you should start your search with ‘’ (apostrophe).
Jarno Virtanen
In Moz 1.4, you can configure the insta-search (without “/“, that is) to search for text as well as links. I am not sure yet whether it really works or does it only seem so.
Can you search the contents of a text edit box?
In my older version of Firebird you can’t, and this is a frustrating factor when editing wiki pages.