If – like me – you spend a lot of time browsing Javadocs (e.g. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/) and/or Rails docs (e.g. http://api.rubyonrails.org/) and/or any other frames-based documentation, you may well have encountered a rather annoying feature of Firefox’s “find” functionality. Whenever you search (using Ctrl-F, or via Edit->Find) Firefox searches frames from left -> right, top -> bottom. i.e. it searches the top left frame first, followed by the middle left frame, followed by the bottom left, followed by the top right, middle right, etc. This can be very annoying if you want to search in a particular frame; you either have to open the frame itself in a new tab, or you have to Ctrl-G through all the unwanted results (like me, you’ll probably end up over-shooting, and cursing).
Anyway…there’s an extension that fixes this problem, “Find in Frame”:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1075
Having installed it … it appears to fix the problem. Will report any gotchas but … all looks good at the moment!
