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[Bug]: Cmd+F does nothing in the integrated browser#22952

opened8d agobyAarmanarutiunov

Before submitting

  • I searched existing issues and did not find a duplicate.
  • I included enough detail to reproduce or investigate the problem.

Area

apps/desktop

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open the desktop app and open the Browser panel.
  2. Load any page with text, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_browser.
  3. Click into the page and press Cmd+F (Ctrl+F on Windows/Linux).

Expected behavior

A find bar opens and highlights matches on the page, as Cmd+F does in every browser.

Actual behavior

Nothing happens. The integrated browser has no way to search the page: no shortcut, and nothing in the browser's ⋮ menu. The only workaround is opening DevTools.

Impact

Minor bug or occasional failure

Version or commit

main @ 680152e2

Environment

macOS 26.4, T3 Code desktop (dev build from main)

Screenshots, recordings, or supporting files

The browser's ⋮ menu has no find option:

Browser more menu without a find option

Workaround

Open DevTools for the page and use its search, or open the page in an external browser.

Aarmanarutiunov8d ago
Synced from GitHub

Fix proposed in #22960: Cmd+F opens a find bar in the integrated browser (search as you type, next/previous, match count). Find on page is also in the ⋮ menu and the command palette, and the shortcut can be rebound in Settings → Keybindings. Pages that bind Cmd+F themselves still get it first, as in Chrome.

JJulius Marminge8d ago

The report is a browser shortcut bug. No duplicate with the same symptom surfaced in the open-issue check over the last 90 days.

Attempted vp run dev:desktop on main at 8acbefefc5. The seeded launch was stopped during snapshot migration; retrying with --no-seed built the web client and server, then failed in build-browser-secret.mjs: Package 'libsecret-1', required by 'virtual:world', not found. The desktop shortcut remains unverified here.

Existing proposed fix #22960 covers this report. Added via-triage; preserving that implementation rather than opening a competing PR. Leaving this issue open pending the existing PR.