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Contents 1 Editing Wikipedia articles using Firefox - difficulty with text search on editing page 2 Reset Password Without Email Address 3 download.wikipedia.org 4 Wikipedia Visitor Browser Statistics?

[edit] Editing Wikipedia articles using Firefox - difficulty with text search on editing page

I recently converted from Internet Explorer to Firefox, and have been very happy with Firefox for a number of reasons (the convenience of the tabs, the ability to change text size in any webpage, etc.)

Everything was wonderful until I tried to edit a Wikipedia article in Firefox. When I'm reading an article and find a part I want to change, I go to the edit page, and click CTRL+F to locate the sentence I want to edit. Firefox doesn't allow me to do this - i.e. the text search feature doesn't seem to allow you to search within text input fields. I've searched various internet discussion forums to find a solution to this, but with no luck.

Surely, surely, there is a way of doing this? I really don't want to have to go back to Explorer, but this is such a terrible flaw in Firefox that it looks like I might have to.

Does anyone know the solution?

Palefire 13:13, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

This page may not be watchlisted by too many people and I am an IE user myself. I'd suggest you ask this question either at the reference desk or the village pump. You are likely to get a quicker reply there -- Lost^(talk) 15:18, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

What you seek is at Wikipedia:Tools/Browser tools/Mozilla Firefox/Search within Textarea Extension with regex. Check also the parent Wikipedia:Tools/Browser tools/Mozilla Firefox. jnestorius^(talk) 15:21, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

And indeed see also Wikipedia:Browser notes#Mozilla_Firefox jnestorius^(talk) 15:54, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

I installed the extension and it works perfectly. Thanks a million. Palefire 15:57, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reset Password Without Email Address

How can you prove that you are the owner of the username if you did not enter an email address with your username and are therefore unable to get a new password emailed to you?

[edit] download.wikipedia.org

There's a link to download SQL dumps from http://download.wikipedia.org/ -- is it down? Is it still (or ever) available?

[edit] Wikipedia Visitor Browser Statistics?

Where can browser statistics for visitors to the Wikipedia sites be found?

Can this be made available if not already so? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.36.147.96 (talk) 00:01, 9 June 2008 (UTC)