Pressing Ctrl+F twice on topic search should close the Discourse search window

[gerhard (Gerhard Schlager)]

No, it’s not a bug. That is intentional. You can read about it in older discussions:

Discourse taking over Ctrl-F

Ctrl-F is for searching the page, for example specific text in a conversation (huge use case). Discourse seems to think it knows better and wants to search other conversations for the text. Thus leaving one no way to search the actual page you’re on for text. Taking over and changing browser functionality is very bad. This is happening on Chrome.

Options to disable hijack of CMD+F / CTRL+F and "/" keys for search?

I’m not sure why anyone thought it was a good idea to hijack the universally accepted “Find” functionality of the browser to open the search box… it’s nothing but frustrating when you’re trying to find text on the page. I noticed whoever implemented also decided they would be clever by also hijacking the less common “/” (vi-style) key shortcut for this as well. Please at least offer a user-configurable option to disable and an admin-configurable default setting.