When using Ctrl+f to find the character ’, Firefox also finds ' (and vice versa).
This was not the case in older Firefox versions (I don’t know exactly since when this happens).
I understand that this is useful in most cases, but I want to find the actual characters I entered, not "equivalent" characters. How can I get back the old behaviour? Is there an about:config setting?
The change was made to Firefox in 2013 in response to a bug report. The bug history shows requests for an option to switch the feature off, but they have been declined as “too edge-casey”. In an answer to a question on Mozilla support forum, a script based on the Greasemonkey extension has been suggested.
The simplest way around the problem is probably to use a different browser when needed. Chrome seems to have the same feature as Firefox, but IE 11 treats Ascii apostrophe ' and typographer’s apostrophe ’ as two distinct characters.
