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 === Step 4b: Revamp Find ===
-In order to keep Firefox’s interface [http://web.archive.org/web/20080221100719/http://rchi.raskincenter.org/index.php?title=Monotony_in_The_Humane_Interface monotonous], Ubiquity should be the sole way of executing commands via the keyboard. Keyboard shortcuts, therefore, should be eliminated. A well-tuned instance of Ubiquity can replace these shortcuts in an efficient—and more humane—manner. The <code style="padding: 0px 1px; background: #FAF6F6; border: 1px solid #EDD; border-right: 2px solid #BAA; border-bottom: 2px solid #BAA; border-radius: 3px; font: 90% sans;">Ctrl</code> key is now free for another function: quasimodal Find (similar to [http://web.archive.org/web/20080224100153/http://rchi.raskincenter.org/index.php?title=Text_Specification#LEAP_AND_CREEP LEAP]. (It may prove better, however, to switch the usage of the <code style="padding: 0px 1px; background: #FAF6F6; border: 1px solid #EDD; border-right: 2px solid #BAA; border-bottom: 2px solid #BAA; border-radius: 3px; font: 90% sans;">Alt</code> and <code style="padding: 0px 1px; background: #FAF6F6; border: 1px solid #EDD; border-right: 2px solid #BAA; border-bottom: 2px solid #BAA; border-radius: 3px; font: 90% sans;">Ctrl</code> keys.)
+In order to keep Firefox’s interface [http://web.archive.org/web/20080221100719/rchi.raskincenter.org/index.php?title=Monotony_in_The_Humane_Interface monotonous], Ubiquity should be the sole way of executing commands via the keyboard. Keyboard shortcuts, therefore, should be eliminated. A well-tuned instance of Ubiquity can replace these shortcuts in an efficient—and more humane—manner. The <code style="padding: 0px 1px; background: #FAF6F6; border: 1px solid #EDD; border-right: 2px solid #BAA; border-bottom: 2px solid #BAA; border-radius: 3px; font: 90% sans;">Ctrl</code> key is now free for another function: quasimodal Find (similar to [http://web.archive.org/web/20080224100153/rchi.raskincenter.org/index.php?title=Text_Specification#LEAP_AND_CREEP LEAP]. (It may prove better, however, to switch the usage of the <code style="padding: 0px 1px; background: #FAF6F6; border: 1px solid #EDD; border-right: 2px solid #BAA; border-bottom: 2px solid #BAA; border-radius: 3px; font: 90% sans;">Alt</code> and <code style="padding: 0px 1px; background: #FAF6F6; border: 1px solid #EDD; border-right: 2px solid #BAA; border-bottom: 2px solid #BAA; border-radius: 3px; font: 90% sans;">Ctrl</code> keys.)
 Showing a tab’s entire history inline provides a nice benefit to how Find works: once Find has finished searching the current page, it can move down to the next one. Thus, it will be easy to find anything within the tab’s entire history. Moreover, text should be indexed when a tab is closed (in addition to thumbnails), allowing closed tabs to be searched and restored in the future.