The website is overriding the browser's "Find" function

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In Chrome, if I want to search the forum pages for a string, I press Ctrl-F.

However, instead of getting Chrome’s text finder, a custom, forum based one opens. That would be fine except that it too has a minimum length in order to search.

That backfired on me just now when I tried to search for a symbol and couldn’t because “Your search term is too short.” But it I add to it, it’s no longer just the symbol.

[What makes it weirder is that, just now, I tried it on different tab that had the forums open on it, and it opened Chrome’s search instead.]

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Would this not be better placed in the Website Bug Report forums rather than General? The proper people would be able to see the bug/feedback since it is a website issue.

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If you don’t click into the website and instead click on chrome’s ui, it should use chrome’s. That’s how most websites (including Google docs) work with having a separate find.

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It’s existence appears to be a feature rather than a bug. The part where it’s inconsistent may be the bug.

EDIT:

I tried that and it doesn’t seem to make a difference. Perhaps it is a bug. I can make a post over there.

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Odd, I’m not running into that issue at all. When I hit Ctrl + F, the only Find utility I get is from Chrome itself.

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It’s weird. Now, no matter what I do/click, I’m getting the Chrome search again. Weird. I’ll take it over to the Website Bug Report forum.

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It did for me as well until I went to edit, find on this page… I was trying to find the correct forum syntax for something… after I did that now it uses Chromes search when I hit ctrl-f… Strange.

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Woot! You fixed it! :wink:

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#Magical!!

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Piece of cake!

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It’s not just in Chrome. I just noticed it happens in Safari on the Mac as well.

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Same with Firefox. When I tried control-F a few days ago, the site intercepted it. Now it brings up the default search in page.

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This is an older thread, not sure if I should reply, but seems appropriate.

I’ve discovered some things about this functionality that hopefully helps others. It seems like the override only applies to longer threads, and I think the reason for this is because the page doesn’t actually keep previous content on-page, only a small section of a thread near the current post you’re looking at. Essentially the infinite scroll applies in reverse except it ends with the first post. Does that make sense? You can see it when you scroll down long threads and start browser scrolling up (not using the in-page slider) you’ll see the scrollbar is indicating a short page yet there are tons of posts above.

Example

This thread does use the Blizzard find, and as of writing this reply, the bottom post had some text “Nothing about BFA is fun”. While looking at that post, if I force browser find (clicking on the toolbar) it will find that text on the page. However, if I scroll up the page the browser find no longer finds this text, since it actually isn’t there anymore. Blizzard find will locate the post and provide a link to it.