MDN intercepts Firefox's native `/` shortcut
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- Dominant language
- JavaScript
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Description
Firefox uses / to mean "quick find in page". MDN intercepts that to mean the completely different "search the whole website". This is a very weird thing to do and sets a somewhat unpleasant precedent for the rest of the web, given that Mozilla's name is on both products.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No file or test is named in the issue. Start by reproducing the slash-key behavior in the MDN frontend, then locate the code handling the website search shortcut. Done means Firefox's native quick-find shortcut works while the site search remains available through its other entry points.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100