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Thursday, February 2, 2006

How to Find in Textareas in Firefox

As you may know, Firefox since it’s pre-final 1.0 release has a bug that won’t let you search in textareas (a critical bug for at least Wiki users and bloggers). Now someone in the forum suggested a workaround: a Firefox extension [XPI] that pops up the old “Search” dialog in Firefox. As long as you focus the textarea when hitting Ctrl + F, it works truly great.

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