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Hide Firefox’s Find Bar After the Job is Done

Posted: February 3, 2009 | Filed Under Add-ons

1227892988 Firefox’s find bars (yes, there are two of them) are often classified as the good one that is hard to remember, and the not so good one that is easy to remember. 

The good one nobody remembers, is hitting the “/” key while browsing a page.  If you hit Ctrl+F you get the not so good one that is easy to remember.  This is the one that we all use most often.  The Hide Find Bar add-on for Firefox merges the greatness of these two searches into one.

How does it do that?  It is very simple.  It allows you to hide the find bar after a certain interval of inactivity has elapsed.  So, when activity in the find bar has been idle for a certain interval it will automatically disappear. 

You can try it out for yourself, all you need to do is download the Hide Find Bar extension from the Firefox Add-ons site.

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  • Mony
    In using Ctrl-F, you just need to press ESC key and it hides automatically right. I like Highlight all option of Ctrl-F very much and to me pressing '/' key is the limited option.
  • roseman
    Regarding Mitch's response, when i search for something i usually search for it in many places on the page. The LAST thing i need is to have to keep typing "/" over and over just to continue the search. I still say Ctrl+F is the "better" one of the two :)
  • The idea about this add on is good. But just as roseman said why you find the CTRL-F in firefox not so good one?
  • I like the fact that the "Quick Find" search is the better of the two because it automatically disappears after I use it.
  • roseman
    Why do you think "/" is the "good" one?!?

    Ctrl+F is just as fast, but ALSO allows for "backing up" (Previous) as well as case-sensitive or case-insensitive searches, etc.

    / just brings up the search field WITHOUT any extra features.

    How on earth is this better??
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