* downloads always hijacks Ctrl/Cmd+f, ignores /
* history hijacks only the first "/" or Ctrl/Cmd+f, ignores subsequent /
* settings doesn't hijack anything

let's make them work the same way.  I vote always hijack Ctrl/Cmd+f because Ctrl/Cmd+g seems to be a good alternative (thanks for pointing this out, tsergeant@!).  I think "/" focusing search box (if it isn't already) also seems fine on all these pages.

i'd like to get a product opinion on this

ooh, I hadn't noticed the interesting History behavior dbeam pointed out for Ctrl+F:

* if search bar is focused, open browser Find in Page (ignore Ctrl+F)
* else, focus search bar (capture Ctrl+F)

I think I like that. (filed issue 725853 for minor bug with it)

We're now thinking about implementing this for MD Bookmarks.

Are we happy with making it consistent that both Ctrl-F and / focus the search bar (matching the current behavior of History) across all pages that use cr-toolbar?

@tsergeant: Note that this is related to  issue 731467 .

Focusing the search box when Ctrl-F for Settings is reasonable, except when a more dedicated search box exists (passwords, cookies, or the proposed search engines search box), in which case the more specific search box should be focused?

From latest discussion with bettes and tbuckley, it seems that we want "/" to focus the search box, but hijacking ctrl/cmd+f is not desired.

@tbuckley: Can you confirm?

For consistency with Gmail and other web apps, let's definitely have "/" focus the search box.

Re: Ctrl+F, given the amount of lazy-loading and iron-lists in WebUI the default find-in-page is unlikely to be very helpful compared to the WebUI search boxes. My preference would be to also have Ctrl+F focus the WebUI search box. Though for Settings, we should focus the most specific search box if one exists on the subpage (eg. search engines, passwords, cookies).

We should also make this consistent across WebUI, see  Issue 784164 .

FYI dbeam@ already landed a mechanism to focus page specific search boxes when ctrl+f is used at https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/956901.

Unassigning myself, since it is unlikely I'll get to it before M70.