# Search shortcut opens Quick Find on Firefox
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-shortcut-opens-quick-find-on-firefox/45234
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [June 4, 2016, 6:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-shortcut-opens-quick-find-on-firefox/45234 "2016-06-04T06:19:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@P16](https://meta.discourse.org/u/P16)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2016, 6:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-shortcut-opens-quick-find-on-firefox/45234/1 "2016-06-04T06:19:49Z")
Not sure if this has been covered before, but pressing / to open the search box on Discourse also opens Quick Find on Firefox. Can we change the key to something else?
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2016, 10:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-shortcut-opens-quick-find-on-firefox/45234/2 "2016-06-04T10:23:18Z")
Are you saying that the shortcut opens both the Discourse-internal search box and Firefox’s in-page search at the same time (which I cannot reproduce), or that Discourse hijacks the shortcut so it only opens Discourse’s internal search (which is expected behavior)?
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### Author:  [@TechnoBear](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TechnoBear)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2016, 10:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-shortcut-opens-quick-find-on-firefox/45234/3 "2016-06-04T10:30:22Z")
> [@fefrei](#):
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> Are you saying that the shortcut opens both the Discourse-internal search box and Firefox’s in-page search at the same time (which I cannot reproduce)
I can reproduce that, in Firefox 46.0.1 on Ubuntu Gnome 16.04.
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2016, 10:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-shortcut-opens-quick-find-on-firefox/45234/4 "2016-06-04T10:31:46Z")
Oops. Actually, I can reproduce it too, I was just looking in the wrong spot (Chrome really got me used to the top-right corner) 😊
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### Author:  [@rriemann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rriemann)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2017, 7:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-shortcut-opens-quick-find-on-firefox/45234/5 "2017-07-26T07:50:10Z")
I’m on Firefox 51.0.1 (64-bit) installed on opensuse and can reproduce this bug.
Actually, quick search opens for all shortcuts 😕
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### Author:  [@rriemann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rriemann)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 2:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-shortcut-opens-quick-find-on-firefox/45234/6 "2017-08-23T14:51:01Z")
I am using Firefox nightly v57.0.a1
When I press /, both Firefox and Discourse search open.
When I press Ctrl+Shift+s, then the Firefox Webtool Debugger and the Discourse search open.
Some refactoring has been done recently though.
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/889b99552aa8d5bbf61b458391f3125c31f42bb0](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/889b99552aa8d5bbf61b458391f3125c31f42bb0)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2017, 3:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-shortcut-opens-quick-find-on-firefox/45234/7 "2017-08-23T15:22:06Z")
ouch, did not test that this does not clash with firefox… will see if I can properly hijack it.
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### Author:  [@rriemann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rriemann)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 10:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-shortcut-opens-quick-find-on-firefox/45234/8 "2017-08-24T10:20:43Z")
Why was Ctrl+Shift+s introduced? Are there any other apps using that combo for search? What about ctrl+F for find?
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 4:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-shortcut-opens-quick-find-on-firefox/45234/9 "2017-08-24T16:08:05Z")
It came up here [https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-about-mentioning-topic-feature/7350/37?u=jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-about-mentioning-topic-feature/7350/37)
Short answer, finding keyboard shortcuts that work in all browsers and all keyboards is hard!
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2018, 6:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-shortcut-opens-quick-find-on-firefox/45234/10 "2018-08-30T06:19:15Z")
I think we ended up picking ctrlaltf which seems to be holding up.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2018, 6:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-shortcut-opens-quick-find-on-firefox/45234/11 "2018-08-30T06:19:39Z")