Accessibility.typeaheadfind.enablesound
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Background
Find As You Type (or Type Ahead Find as it was originally called) allows you to start finding text on the page immediately by simply typing the text you’re trying to find. When typed characters fail to match anything on the page, it can be configured to play an alert sound.
Possible values and their effects
True
If the typed character doesn’t match anything on the page (and the user has typed at least one character previously), play an alert sound. (Default)
False
Never play an alert sound. (This is the same as setting accessibility.typeaheadfind.soundURL to an empty string.)
Caveats
- For a short time (2002-12-03 through 2003-01-13) this preference was nonfunctional. As mentioned above, the same functionality could be attained by setting accessibility.typeaheadfind.soundURL to an empty string.
UI
Mozilla Suite
A checkbox labeled “Play a sound when typed text isn’t found” is located under “Edit → Preferences → Advanced → Keyboard Navigation → Find As You Type”.
First checked in
Has an effect in
- Netscape (all versions since 7.1)
- Mozilla Suite (all versions since 1.2)
- Mozilla Phoenix (all versions since 0.5)
- Mozilla Firebird (all versions)
- Mozilla Firefox (all versions)
- Camino (all versions since 0.8)
- SeaMonkey (all versions)
Related bugs
- Bug 30088 - Incremental find (like Emacs isearch) (type ahead find)
- Bug 176602 - Make typeaheadfind beep less annoying
- Bug 185489 - Type Ahead Find enablesound false Not Working
Related preferences
- accessibility.typeaheadfind
- accessibility.typeaheadfind.autostart
- accessibility.typeaheadfind.enabletimeout
- accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar
- accessibility.typeaheadfind.linksonly
- accessibility.typeaheadfind.soundURL
- accessibility.typeaheadfind.startlinksonly
- accessibility.typeaheadfind.timeout
