Automatic case-sensitive "Find in this Page"

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Kodiologist
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Automatic case-sensitive "Find in this Page"

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The Unix tradition is to make a search case-insensitive unless it contains a capital letter, in which case it becomes case-sensitive. Is it possible to get this behavior for Firefox's "Find in this Page"?

Failing that, is there a keyboard shortcut to toggle case sensitivity?
morat
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Re: Automatic case-sensitive "Find in this Page"

Post by morat »

Try setting the following pref to 1 or 2, then restart.

Pref accessibility.typeaheadfind.casesensitive
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Accessibility ... esensitive
Kodiologist
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Re: Automatic case-sensitive "Find in this Page"

Post by Kodiologist »

Awesome, thank you. I'm going to miss this forum when it's gone.
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therube
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Re: Automatic case-sensitive "Find in this Page"

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"Kodiologist".

Never heard that (word) before.
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morat
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Re: Automatic case-sensitive "Find in this Page"

Post by morat »

You're welcome.

Wayback Machine for MozillaZine Knowledge Base
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://kb. ... ledge_Base

P.S.

I assume Kodi is his first name.

Showing words matching *ologist
http://www.onelook.com/thesaurus/?s=*ologist
Kodiologist
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Re: Automatic case-sensitive "Find in this Page"

Post by Kodiologist »

That's right. My name is Kodi Arfer. I'm a behavioral scientist, and a lot of my research interests have a certain navel-gazing quality. Hence, I am a Kodiologist.
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