[jeroenhd]

Sometimes they "need" to, because rather than load 100kB of text, they'll chunk 100kB of text over ten JSON requests and searching requires backend intervention. If you make every web page an app, the browser doesn't work right anymore so you force yourself to build a browser within a browser!

[ants_everywhere]

Ctrl-F should search the loaded page using the browser's search settings so that the user can have a consistent interface.

If sites choose not to load the page all at once they can provide another search bar with a different experience. But that's not the Ctrl-F search.

[0xTJ]

Even if it's for that, it's infuriating, and a terrible pattern. Just as I expect CTRL+click to open in a new tab, there are some interactions that should be left alone; it's annoying to me that they even can be overridden.