GitHub: Prevent search hijacking

GitHub overrides the slash key to focus its search box. This extension restores the default Firefox behavior to pop up the Find bar.

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What is GitHub: Prevent search hijacking?

GitHub: Prevent search hijacking is a Firefox add-on by Yuri Khan. This add-on has 21 daily active users and a perfect 5.0 rating. The latest version, 0.2, was updated 5 years ago.

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By: Yuri Khan

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Users: 21 ▲ 1

Rating: 5.00 (1)

Version: 0.2 (Last updated: 2018-06-06)

Creation date: 2018-06-06

Weekly download count: NaN

Firefox on Android: Yes

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

• *://github.com/*

Size: 5.46K

Email: Click to see

URLs: Website

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Other platforms

Not available on Chrome

Not available on Edge

ChromeStats Rank

# 17102 ▲ 368

Other rankings

#12 in prevent keyword ▲ 1

#64 in override keyword

#77 in github keyword ▲ 1

#117 in present keyword ▲ 2

#161 in event keyword ▲ 2

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User reviews

Had to create an account just so I could recommend and review this extension, which works great, with a perfectly minimal footprint. I'm a coder, so I spend much of time online, and many sites like to steal focus when I try to search the page for a term using the slash key; which means that I then have to instead click on the Firefox File Menu Bar, then click Edit, then click Find in This Page. This extension perfectly stops websites from doing that.

by No, 2019-11-20

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