Norm,
Actually, the Mozilla Foundation folks are all fairly geeky-which explains the vi command. On the other hand, this same text search feature is available using Control-F (Or Command-F on Macs). Though that doesn't excuse the lack of documentation you mention for this particular feature...
-dan
Concerning Firefox:
I've been using it almost exclusively for several months now (I mainly used Mozilla before that), and I really like it. My complaint, though, is that the documentation is awful.
For example, I discovered by accident that one can do a text search
within the currently-displayed page by using the vi `/' command! Yep,
hit the slash key as one would do in vi, and Firefox will search for the
text you type. In fact, it does it incrementally, and stops you if
you've typed so much that the string doesn't exist. And, instead of an
annoying popup window for the search, a search box appears WITHIN the
current window, at the bottom.
All that is nice, but I discovered it purely by accident. I'm so used to using the / key to do searches in vim that I unthinkingly did so in FF, and thus stumbled onto this cool feature. But it does not seem to be in the documentation. In fact, as far as I know, there IS no full documentation even available. (Please correct me if I am wrong on this.)
One thing that FF does much better than the old Mozilla or Konqueror is the installation of plug-ins, which FF partially automates. But it still is poor relative to IE or for that matter Opera. And even though FF has a plug-ins help page, which IS rather helpful, it is still lacking.
Norm
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