hi. a bit red-faced. i "bisected" my config.py. the line that stopped it from working was ---- c.zoom.default = '175%' ----
which is because at 175% the pages i was looking at don't actually display the search bar. even with that line, if i launched qutebrowser, went to one of these (wiktionary) pages, and reduced my zoom to 100%, "Alt-f" worked as expected. sorry for the nuisance. cheers, Greg
