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Doesn’t do that for me. Have you got some oddball extension installed or something?

Found that this is a Firefox setting, maybe it's not (no longer) defaulted to on.

"Search for text when you start typing"

I have to say, I do like this setting enabled, but can see how it conflicts with the page. And let's be fair, how much time and I saving over having to press Ctrl+F when I want to search a page?

You can also type / to start searching which is one less keystroke than Command-F

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