Hi everybody,
most functions in this forumsoftware are useful for me.
But there is one thing that I find really annoying.
Whenever I want to do a classical textsearch by pressing Ctrl-f
This forum-search gets activated.
What do I have to do to make firefox for windows show the firefox searchfield and then do the classical textsearch through the page?
best regards Stefan
Ctrl+f twice in quick succession activates the Windows search function, at least it does in Chrome
Personally I think it very naughty that the forum software hijacks a classic, been around forever, Windows function and have commented on it previously
There is a reason the forum has this behavior. It is because Discourse doesn't load the entire topic, only the posts near where you are in the timeline.
So be aware that when you circumvent the forum search, you are only going to get results for the text that is on the currently loaded section of the topic. This is why you will see that the browser search is used when you do a Ctrl+F on a short topic.
@UKHeliBob thank you for answering.
This is something I don't like at all. I can't change it.
At least there should be an option load the whole thread. In the age of full-HD netflixing the additional traffic caused through loading the complete thread is just "peanuts".
best regards Stefan
works too in Safari on a Mac
Think about people reading on a smartphone in places with low bandwidth. it's useful to have a lazy fetch. Agree it would deserve to be an option though so that you can force it if you want to.
With the SMF forum software that was in use this time last year, the threads were split into pages. If you wanted to search the entire thread, you had to work your way through each page. So, even if you don't like Discourse's search, it is actually an improvement over what the forum used to have because you still have the option of doing a browser native search on each section of the topic as it was before, but now we also have the option of searching the full topic, which was not available at all before.
We also never had any sorts of intelligent filters, which the old forum didn't have any of. You had page by page Ctrl+F, or Google, or at the very end a bespoke native arduino.cc search that didn't seem very reliable. Nothing else.
had less functionality sure.
The rcgroups-forum offers adjusting the number of postings per page
You could even adjust it to 1000 or 2000 postings per page.
So everthing is one one page.
I appreciate the reason for invoking the Discourse search mechanism and the filters that it provides, but what confused me for a long while is that depending on the size of the topic Ctrl + F behaves differently as you have described
something missing (was asked in the Spanish forum recently) is the ability to search (using the detailed view) across multiple categories (they are presented as a tree but really if you search in — say — "Software" you won't get all the "sub"-categories
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