Is it Possible to do an exact search on this Site?

I am trying to diagnose a problem with flashing of the menus and see if there is an incompatibility between OSX and some Firefox settings, but get results involving Flash.

You can try using "search tips" found on this page https://discussions.apple.com/search

You can also try an advanced search feature on this website: https://www.google.com/advanced_search

Advanced tips

Here are some other tips to make the most of your research. You can get fancy by entering in a way search terms and using special characters to limit or expand your search results:

Action Description Example of
Search for content that has certain words, but not necessarily all the words in the order This is the simplest search. Simply enter your search terms. This example finds the content with the words sync, iPhoneand iTunes. sync iPhone iTunes
Search for content with some words in a certain order. To search for a specific phrase, place your phrase with quotation marks. Research will attempt to find the content with these words in order that their joint. He'll find any other content that contains only those words. ««Sync to iPhone»»
Search for content with words that have letters in them.

Use 'wildcards' to search for parts of words. Wildcards are special characters (*) that you include in your search terms...

Multiple generic character represents a number any character. For example, to search for sync, synchronized, or synchronization, you can use this search.

Sync *.
You can also use the wildcard character in the middle of a term. Note: You cannot use a symbol {0} or {1} as the first character of a search.

iP * d
Search for content with similar terms that you enter

"Fuzzy" searches return results that exactly match your search and the results terms that are nearby. For example, if you want to search for a word that is similar to the synchronization, add a tilde (~) to your search term. This research will correspond to terms such as sync, synchronizationand synck.

Sync ~.
Search for content in which some words are close to each other. To search for the words sync and the iPhone within five words of each other, enter a search like this phrase. "synchronize iPhone" ~ 5
Boost content with some words up in the list of results Boosting a search term gives it more weight in the list of results. For example, if you search for iPhone iTunes sync you might get results of synchronization with iTunes, but not necessarily to sync your iPhone with iTunes. In this case, use a caret (^) and a number to tell the search engine for the word "iPhone" of heavier weight. sync iTunes iPhone ^ 4
You can also push expressions that use a higher number, more to stimulate it. For example, if the stimulus a word in 3 still returns too many results, you can increase the value of the boost to 6.

'"iPhone sync" ' ^ 3 iTunes

"" sync iPhone"" ^ 6 iTunes

Search content to this word OR that Word; this word AND that Word. Using Boolean operators, you can combine terms by using AND, +, OR, NOT and -. ALL uppercase to distinguish these terms of the normal words.

The ORoperator links two terms and find content matching if or the other term exist in the content. You can also use two lines | instead of the word OR. To search the user tips that contain "iPhone sync" or "iTunes sync" use the query in the first two examples.

OR is the default mode to search terms together, even if we let him. The third example is equivalent to the two best examples.

"" sync iPhone"" GOLD "iTunes sync.

««Sync to iPhone»» | "iTunes sync.

"" sync iPhone"" "iTunes sync.

The operator AND , says that the search should return content in which all search terms are present. Note that you can also use the symbol & & in place of the word AND. Looking for advice about using that contain the "iPhone sync" and "iTunes sync" uses a search as in this example.

"" synchronize iPhone' "AND"iTunes sync.

'"synchronize iPhone' ' & & 'iTunes sync.

You can get fancy by grouping Boolean expressions using parentheses. For example, to get results on the different types of synchronization, try this example.

(iPhone iTunes music OR gold) AND sync Search of the content which is not having some words. The NOT operator excludes items that contain the term after NOT. You can also use the symbol ! in the place of the word NOT. To search for content that contains "iTunes sync" but not "sync music" uses something like in this example.

"" sync iPhone"" NOT "iTunes sync.

""sync iPhone "! "iTunes sync.

You must use the operator NOT with several terms. The example on the right will return no search results. NOT ""iPhone sync" Search for content in a particular place, such as the text of the topic or accessories. You can find something by looking at only part of the content. Type the name of the component contained by a colon after, then the text you want to search for. You can refine your search on the subject, body or tags. Here is an example that only searches for the word "sync" in the subject (title) of the content. Subject: sync Include special characters in your search phrase.

To include some special characters (illustrated right) in a search expression, you use a special "escape" character that tells the search engine to treat the special characters like the others.

+ & - & | ! ( ) { } [ ] ^ " ~ * ? \ To escape these characters, put a backslash (\) before the character. For example, to search for some (1 + 1) - 2, that has special characters (,), + and -, use this query. \(1\+1\)\-2

* These search tips have been copied from the link above.

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