Agreed. Hijacking ctrl-f in my browser (chrome) is user-hostile, given searching on-page is a reasonable expectation for any web app. I use Confluence regular

Agreed. Hijacking ctrl-f in my browser (chrome) is user-hostile, given searching on-page is a reasonable expectation for any web app. I use Confluence regularly over a high latency (600ms) link - and this has the surprise / delayed page load you describe, with the newer search features refusing to action your search request until it's loaded & rendered a large overlay on the right-hand side of the screen. These two attributes make are hugely frustrating, given looking for information is the key function of a wiki.