Comment 114 for bug 691380

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In , Mly (mly) wrote :

> try ctrl+g to directly set focus into "find text", but it is not exactly the
> same as 2x ctrl+f

Even if this were a good key combination -- which it isn't, being completely contrary to every expectation platform -- command-G simply
doesn't work (except the first time) on the Macintosh platform.

That is Bug 579372.
Which is marked WONTFIX, rather than fixed, just as one would expect given the professional quality of the parties involved.

It's hard to understand how things as fundamental as searching messages in a folder by simple criteria and searching for text within a message could be
broken so badly and allowed to escape into release, and remain so broken for so long through subsequent releases. But here we are.