I need the find bar to stop matching smart quotes for straight ones.

Some recent update of Firefox caused the find bar to match smart quotes (“ and ”) for the straight quote ("). Additionally, it now matches smart single quotes and apostrophes (‘ and ’) for the straight single quote (').
I need to disable this matching so that a search for a straight quote will only yield a straight quote result. Also, if any other character matching was added, I'd like to disable that too. I need exact results.

Hi Chuck, this could be coincident with the launch of the "per-tab" find bar with its new UI design. However, I didn't see a specific but for the change in the tracking system (Bugzilla).
If this is a major pain point for you, to help track it down, could you do a comparison between Firefox 24 and Firefox 25? You can download the Portable builds of old versions of Firefox and run them without disturbing your main installation of Firefox. (However, you might not be able to run more than one at a time.) Those two would be here:
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps/files/Mozilla%20Firefox%2C%20Portable%20Ed./Mozilla%20Firefox%2C%20Portable%20Edition%2025.0.1/ Portable Firefox 25.0.1]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/portableapps/files/Mozilla%20Firefox%2C%20Portable%20Ed./Mozilla%20Firefox%2C%20Portable%20Edition%2024.0/ Portable Firefox 24.0]
Does it work the way you want in either of those?

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