Ctrl+F search is ****ed

[The Monkey]

My Ctrl+F search for Firefox isn't working properly. When searching a page, it doesn't filter the words like it should. Long words (over three letters) are never found, and the smaller words are only found occasionally. Take Wikipedia's home page for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

The word "wi" is found multiple times, but the word "wikipedia" isn't found once, even though it's everywhere. Likewise, "eng" is found once, but not "english".

The search works fine on IE. I've had this problem for a couple of days, anyone know what it might be?

 

[AtomicSpark]

Are you using the latest version? What add-ons do you have installed? I wonder if there is a setting you can change in about:config.

 

[PimpinPenguin]

Check all your add-ons by disabling them one by one to see if any of them are conflicting with your search results.

 

[The Monkey]

I have the latest version of Firefox, 3.0.6.

I tried disabling all the plug-ins, but to no success.

 

[Sir Phoenixx]

You have "Match case" checked, it can't find "wikipedia" on their site because it isn't there, it's their site's name so the first letter is capitalized, meaning "wikipedia" != "Wikipedia". "wi" on the other hand is part of "twice", "with", "win", etc. the case matches. Same thing happens with "en" and "english".

 

[Vegeta897]

Monkey if you missed that I am disappointed.

 

[The Monkey]

No, I didn't miss that; the box wasn't checked. The Wikipedia case was just an example, it happened with other words too, whether with capital letters or not. It seems to have fixed itself now, though, no idea how.

 

[Vegeta897]

A likely story.

 

[The Monkey]

A likely story.

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