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If you right click on a project there is a "Find..." action there which lets you search in projects. I've often been frustrated that it's disabled. I recently discovered that it's just an initialization thing; the FIRST time you right click on the projects (which I generally don't since I use keyboard actions for most things -- debug, run, etc) the Find action is disabled. But if you just open the menu again, NOW it's enabled!
Additional investigation is required. Not for 6.9.
Cannot reproduce any more. Probably fixed by previous changes. Please reopen if you encounter this bug again.