A controversial feature, one I even railed against in the olden days, seems to have stopped working. Pressing ctrl+f here, or on QT3, just uses my browser’s search. It no longer pops up the Discourse search bar in “thread” mode. I’ve tried Firefox and Chrome, logged in or logged out. I’ve search t…

The shortcut was removed in April https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/32281 However, it appears that the related topics have not been updated.

Yes, removed intentionally. If you miss the Discourse search within longer topics you can use the / shortcut.

It’s funny because I actually liked using Ctrl+F for longer topics. Oh well, change must be… Thanks for all the hard work making Discourse the best platform ever.

That’s funny, I recently read old topics about how Discourse hijacked the Ctrl+f feature of the browser. I understand the intent, but in 7+ years of using Discourse, it always annoyed me more than it helped me. I’m happy to see the feature gone, especially since there’s the \ shortcut to replace it…

Some are happy, some are sad. :slightly_smiling_face: In fact, I would prefer it to become a customizable option that defaults to the / key. Because different groups have different feelings about this, the first Discourse site I encountered required pressing Ctrl+F twice, and according to incomplet…

Discourse가 더 이상 Ctrl+F를 가로채지 않나요?

지원

awesomerobot (Kris) 1월 15, 2026, 11:51오후 3

네, 의도적으로 제거했습니다. 긴 주제 내의 Discourse 검색 기능을 그리워하신다면 / 단축키를 사용할 수 있습니다.

글		댓글	조회수
Disabling Ctrl-F Support	4	489	5월 25, 2024
Search keyboard shortcuts hijacked? Bug keyboard-shortcuts	12	2956	1월 20, 2017
Discourse taking over Ctrl-F Feature	21	14154	10월 5, 2014
Options to disable hijack of CMD+F / CTRL+F and "/" keys for search? Feature keyboard-shortcuts	44	50998	6월 25, 2019
Remove overriding of cmd/ctrl-f UX keyboard-shortcuts	34	1390	6월 20, 2024

Discourse가 더 이상 Ctrl+F를 가로채지 않나요?

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