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 UX: Remove Ctrl+F search shortcut main ← feature/remove-ctrl-f-search merged 05:14AM - 15 Apr 25 UTC (UTC) [Bild] …

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…

Discourse kapert ctrl+f nicht mehr?

Unterstützung

awesomerobot (Kris) 15. Januar 2026 um 23:51 3

Ja, absichtlich entfernt. Wenn Sie die Discourse-Suche innerhalb längerer Themen vermissen, können Sie die Tastenkombination / verwenden.

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Options to disable hijack of CMD+F / CTRL+F and "/" keys for search? Feature keyboard-shortcuts	45	50546	25. Juni 2019
Remove overriding of cmd/ctrl-f UX keyboard-shortcuts	34	1165	20. Juni 2024

Discourse kapert ctrl+f nicht mehr?

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