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This opinion is never popular because for some reason developers seem to be dead afraid of asking their user's output.

What I would do is add a dialog the first time the user press CTRL+F. Asks if the user wants the default or the override. Save this in a cookie or in the database.



"ctrl-f" was overly literal, I simply meant "a way to search the content of all the comments."

A simple (non-JS) "Search these comments" form would suffice, but I've never seen it implemented.


Alternatively, you could load all the threads when responding to ctrl+F for the first time on a page and just leave the browser default find UX alone.




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