User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: March 25, 2015/@comment-452-20150325204944/@comment-452-20150327183829

Unbearable is right, I keep loading JS pages, pressing ctrl-f, typing a word and wondering the search doesn't work: because I pressed ctrl-f before the "special" search was loaded (and the focus isn't in the highlight area by default anyway), so pressing ctrl-f brought up the browser search, and for some reason the highlight area on JS/CSS pages "hides" content not currently visible, so you cannot search for what you cannot see with your own eyes. (I don't even know where it goes, I tried searching with the inspector, but the hidden content is apparently not even in the DOM, so I guess the page content is being stored in javascript variables or something)

Either that, or after I switch to using the custom search I keep accidentally replacing the term I'm searching for because pressing ctrl-f twice unceremoniously switches to replace mode.

Or, I want to replace variable with "string", so I highlight variable and type "string", which results in: "variable"string". *facepalm*

I'm sure the highlighting is great for beginners to help them understand js/css, but I've long since passed the point where syntax highlighting helps me, so I'm personally getting +0 benefit, +1 lag loading the page, +1 delay any time I want to search, +1 second-guessing myself as to whether I'm even on the right page, and +1 triple-checking that what I typed is actually what I wanted to type.

When I am editing site CSS/JS, the entire wiki suffers when I make a mistake, so it's not just me who this is effecting.

Also, my CSS/JS tabs have been crashing a lot recently, and I'm getting tired of losing my progress.