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Kill The Slash userscript

Sat Jun 24, 2006, 9:40 AM
premise: Firefox has this 'feature' to bring up the search bar when you type the slash, / (or ' and - for subtypes of the search)
I was told it stems from unix applications, while nowadays virtually every application on probably every OS supports the search by typing Ctrl+F. Hence, this way to open the search bar is kinda obsolete, if not annoying, especially on dAmn, where the slash, when typed into the input line, is used for the commands, /me, /topic, /kick etc. - Firefox ignores the search autostart when the focus is inside an input line/textarea, but all too often, by an accidental click, this focus can be lost, and when you try to type /me does something then, the search bar pops up, reading "me does something"... :| I bet you encountered it, too, and if you now think "yes I did!" please continue to read... everyone else please press Ctrl+W now.

Kill The Slash is a userscript that catches these 'hotkeys', disables the popping up of the search bar. Of course you need GreaseMonkey to install this script, and the installation itself is to right-click the link at the start of this paragraph and select "Install User Script" (I bet you know the procedure by now :))
Please note that this fix was also included in dAmn.extend, so, if you already have that script and only want this fix for dAmn, there's no need to install the above standalone script :P I'd suggest it anyway, though, dAmn.extend and standalone don't bug each other :) don't worry about having both installed.

 



 




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I talked about this almost a year ago. :lol: Nice to see it addressed.

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I had a previous version but it didn't work on dAmn :slow: well, using document.onkeypress is bad :no:

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alright! thankyou! :D

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Ah, thankyou much man. Been wondering how to conquer this.

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