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Ctrl+F is out of order in my Firefox 5.0

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Whenever I press Ctrl+F or Edit>Find in my cope of Firefox 5.0, nothing happens.

Whenever I press Ctrl+F or Edit>Find in my cope of Firefox 5.0, nothing happens.

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It is possible that the screen is too high and that the find bar and add-on bar fall off at the bottom.
Open the system menu via Alt+Space and see if you can resize that window.
If that works then close Firefox (File > Exit/Quit) to save that setting.

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Chosen Solution

It is possible that the screen is too high and that the find bar and add-on bar fall off at the bottom.
Open the system menu via Alt+Space and see if you can resize that window.
If that works then close Firefox (File > Exit/Quit) to save that setting.

See also:

If the above didn't help then see:

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Thanks a lot, cor-el. Resizing solved the problem.