Jonathan Kaye wrote:
Sam Halliday wrote:for anyone who has thunderbird installed, they will notice that when you search for an item in the search bar, a little button appears which allows you to clear the field... is there an extension to firefox which enables the same feature in its search bar? as it is very irritating having to manually clear the search bar every time.I just use ctl-f which opens the search box if it's not already open. It highlights any text in the box if it's already open so anything I type replaces what's highlighted. It shifts focus to the search box as well so even if the box is on the main Firefox browser window ctl-f will get you straight to the search box. I'm using KDE and ctl-f is the search command used in KDE apps anyway.
Isn't that easier and quicker than using a button.
no. consider the situation where i have selected text from the browser window which i wish to search for. C-f will not delete the text in the search window, and neither will pasting over it. the only key combination which will do what i wish involves 4 key presses on my laptop C-k Fn-BS (to send C-k Del). a button would be much better, and not require me to learn any new key strokes. i already use emacs... i think thats enough key shortcuts for a lifetime!
cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel/
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