Use <ESC> key it works fine to close the find box.

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:38 PM, S D Allen <[email protected]>wrote:

> IMO it should be a toggle. I don't mind it in a fixed position it's really
> annoying when one can use a key command to open something but then require
> the mouse to close it. That's not good UI design
>
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Finnur Thorarinsson <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> 1) No. I think it would just annoy people. With the Find box (as it is
>> implemented today) - if it loses focus you'd have to press Ctrl-F twice to
>> get focus to the text area of the Find box (once to close it, once to open
>> it again and sets focus to it). Now... You already have a keyboard shortcut
>> to close the Find box, so you can just as well use Esc to close it. It is
>> even easier (1 keystroke fewer) than using Ctrl+F and people are used to Esc
>> closing things.
>> 2) and 3) sound like something you should enter into the bug repository
>> and have it labeled (by one of the Chromium members) as a feature request.
>> See: http://crbug.com
>>
>> Personally, I don't see the point of 2) and with 3) you'll always run the
>> risk of obscuring something, no matter where you locate the Find box over
>> the page. Having it on top at least makes it more visible to people.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 06:47, Gambitico <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> (1) would be nice if Ctrl-F worked as a toggle to open/close the find
>>> dialog, right now it only opens it which creates a mouse dependency to
>>> close the dialog
>>> (2) when the find dialog is already open Firefox also opens it with a
>>> new tab session, would be nice to have this feature available in
>>> Chromium too
>>> (3) the find dialog opens only in the upper-right corner which hides
>>> the Google home page account options!  would be nice to be able to
>>> display the dialog in a much more convenient location, for example, at
>>> the bottom of the screen
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Steve
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/torontostephenallen
>
>
> >
>

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