# Ctrl-f gave me a spinning wheel
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/ctrl-f-gave-me-a-spinning-wheel/43866
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [8 Mayo, 2016 00:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ctrl-f-gave-me-a-spinning-wheel/43866 "2016-05-08T00:53:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@IanKelling](https://meta.discourse.org/u/IanKelling)
#### Post date: [8 Mayo, 2016 00:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ctrl-f-gave-me-a-spinning-wheel/43866/1 "2016-05-08T00:53:10Z")
I came to this forum from google, hit ctrl-f typed something, then I was very confused why my search bar did not show up on the bottom.
Just to add a bit more: I’m researching something technical, google search results have a sentence from the link: I click the link, I hit ctrl-f, type a word or two, I want the sentence highlighted so I can continue reading from the context google gave me.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [8 Mayo, 2016 01:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ctrl-f-gave-me-a-spinning-wheel/43866/3 "2016-05-08T01:46:11Z")
Hmmm. I don’t understand why that might be happening.
I just tested in several of my browsers and in each case ctrl-f opened the browser’s native “find in page” search.
And the keyboard short-cut for forum search is a forward slash, not ctrl anything.
Can you provide exact repro steps please?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [8 Mayo, 2016 01:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ctrl-f-gave-me-a-spinning-wheel/43866/4 "2016-05-08T01:50:08Z")
**On topics with 20 to thousands of replies** , search will trigger Discourse in topic search. If you wish to override this, press ctrl+f twice.
On short topics this isn’t necessary since the entire topic fits in the browser.
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### Author:  [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [8 Mayo, 2016 02:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ctrl-f-gave-me-a-spinning-wheel/43866/5 "2016-05-08T02:13:59Z")
> [@codinghorror](#):
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> If you wish to override this, press ctrl+f twice.
This doesn’t work anymore in Chrome for me since the header change.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [8 Mayo, 2016 02:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ctrl-f-gave-me-a-spinning-wheel/43866/6 "2016-05-08T02:15:24Z")
I can confirm, @eviltrout can you fix that first thing Monday?
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### Author:  [@TechnoBear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TechnoBear)
#### Post date: [8 Mayo, 2016 12:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ctrl-f-gave-me-a-spinning-wheel/43866/7 "2016-05-08T12:42:14Z")
I can confirm it also no longer works in Firefox.
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [9 Mayo, 2016 16:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ctrl-f-gave-me-a-spinning-wheel/43866/8 "2016-05-09T16:06:40Z")
Sure, here we go:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/29b94b5ad3fff64961d3cf135f98b6edea34b5c1](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/29b94b5ad3fff64961d3cf135f98b6edea34b5c1)
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [9 Mayo, 2016 19:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ctrl-f-gave-me-a-spinning-wheel/43866/9 "2016-05-09T19:02:09Z")