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Since last upgrade, "Find in page" box only opens in one tab - doesn't stay open at bottom of screen. How do I make it stay open all the time?

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Used to be when I opened the Find bar (either control F or Menu/Edit/Find) it would stay open at the bottom of the Firefox window in all tabs and in any new tabs I opened. Now it only opens in the current tab; when I switch tabs or open a new one, I have to open the Find bar in the new tab.

I use "Find in page" many times a day, so this is extremely inconvenient. Is there a setting I can change so that once I open the Find bar it stays open for the whole browser and all its tabs?

Thanks,

Max

Used to be when I opened the Find bar (either control F or Menu/Edit/Find) it would stay open at the bottom of the Firefox window in all tabs and in any new tabs I opened. Now it only opens in the current tab; when I switch tabs or open a new one, I have to open the Find bar in the new tab. I use "Find in page" many times a day, so this is extremely inconvenient. Is there a setting I can change so that once I open the Find bar it stays open for the whole browser and all its tabs? Thanks, Max

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It was changed, you can change it back with this addon.

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It was changed, you can change it back with this addon.

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Thank you - this is going to save me so much time!

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Note that you can easily open the Find bar with F3 in other tabs to do a search with the previously used search terms.

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Well isn't that special, there's an addon.

Now will someone kindly tell us how to make the addon work so that the find bar stays open when you go to a new tab? Because I installed it and the bar still doesn't stay open.

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You need to look in the Options/Preferences of this extension on the "Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Extensions" page.

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Finally. Thank you very much, cor-el.