Firefox: Use “/” To Search
By Daniel Miessler on April 17th, 2006: Tagged as Firefox | Unix
I don’t have any idea why I didn’t know this before, but in Firefox you can search within a given web page by pressing the "/" key (that’s a forward slash). For those that are *nix-literate, you’ll recognize this as the way to search within .vi
Actually, that's how I discovered the option; I was about to look for soemthing on a page and I subconsciously pressed the / key as if I were in vi.
I saw the search bar pop up on the bottom, but it didn't sink in for like 5 seconds. I was like, "Did I really just see that?" Once I confirmed that I wasn't seeing things I backtracked to figure out why I pressed that key to search in the first place, and more importantly -- why it worked.
That's when it struck me -- it's how you search in vi! Wow. Very cool. To add to the novelty, the search bar goes away in a few seconds if you don't actually use it. Yes, definitely cool.:
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