Firefox incorrectly finds part of a word when searching for a term

Question

Dear Sir/Madam
I was just searching for articles about "sage" (the herb), and at the site
http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/sweat.html
there's the following section:
"08/30/2009: Ckn1234 from Brooklyn, Ny replies: "I had the ETS surgery too and have started to sweat profusely on my chest and back. Do you still take the same do***sage*** 3X a day to combat the sweating? Have the results maintained their effectiveness?"
I pressed Ctrl + F to bring up the Firefox Find box and I typed in: sage
One of the hits was the the word "dosage", which I marked above as: do***sage***
Even though the site is indeed about the herb sage, this particular hit isn't relevant, so obviously there's a problem here with the Firefox Find feature.
Could you please modify the Firefox Find box so that there's a tick box that reads "Find whole words only", and another that reads "Find partial words only".
On an unrelated point, it would also be very useful if you could highlight different search terms in different colours. For instance if I search for "lodge" and "complaint" (i.e. the collocation "to lodge a complaint"), it would be very useful if you could highlight "lodge" and "complaint" in different colours.
Thank you
Regards
Nick Worley

Answer 1

I found this answer on another forum: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPQqI9dZdZo]
You can install the add-on 'YesScript' and then use it to tell Javascript not to let Google perform AutoComplete. From what I've read, Google is forcing AutoComplete down our throats whether we want that feature or not. Their logic is that people type too slowly, so this will speed things up. Trouble is, I type faster than AutoComplete can even begin to keep up with, so I was forever having to wait for AutoComplete to catch up with me, in order to see if I had misspelled something before pressing Enter. All AutoComplete did was slow me down until it was finally disabled.
Funny thing is, Google embeds a gear-like looking icon in the upper-right corner of its search screens, which enables us to change our search settings. You can turn GoogleInstant off there, but not AutoComplete. Sure wish they'd have allowed us to disable AutoComplete in that manner. This would have saved disgruntled Google Heads an awful lot of trouble, but how much trouble could it possibly have been for Google to add that little bit of highly desirable functionality in the first place?
Seems to me, some of the software engineers at Google might be the same people who are controlling the way traffic lights work here in Norman, OK: It's as if the signals are set for 80 year-old ladies making their way back from church, which works pretty well about 11:00 o'clock on a Sunday morning, but the rest of the time all it does is frustrate the heck out of most of the rest of us.