I have checked "Search for text when I start typing" but it is not happening since your latest update.

I have checked “Search for text when I start typing” but it is not happening since your latest update. This is very important to me as I keyboard - not use the mouse. What can I do? Also, before the last update I could leave the window (alt+tab) and return and just type and it would type it is the search box. Now I have to take my hand off the keyboard and get the mouse three times for every search, slowing my work way, way down. What other flag do I need to put this back the way it was? Should I also remove the “Automatically check for updates” so that this will not happen again? Please, please help.

Hi CynthiaP,
You should look at the article [http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved Preferences not saved]. It may just be an issue with the pref file!
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*The Firefox "search for text when I start typing feature" has just stopped working correctly
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*"Search for text" Zooms when number keys pressed. Expecting it to FIND text
~J99
I tried restarting Firefox and turning on/off the Advanced feature ( "search for text when I start typing feature")
but it did not help. I am using a Mac. I also tried using an external keyboard/keypad but the exact same
results occur.
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Barry

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