When using Nautilus, sometimes I want to jump do a directory (or a file) that I know is in there, but I don't want to visually look for it. The easy way to do that in Windows (and, for what I can remember, in previous versions of Ubuntu) is to simply type the element's name and the window manager will browse the displayed element in order to find it. Right after that, you just have to hit enter to open it.
For instance, if I'm in my home folder and want to access the dev folder, I just type de, enter and I'm in it.
Instead of that, in Ubuntu 13.04, when you free type while you're in Nautilus, it will run a search (I don't know in which scope: the whole folder you're in, I suppose).
Is it possible to disable this mechanism and restore the previous one ?
