Hi Jeff,
i am a great fan of sql developer, but the recent releases are quite disappointing, especially the find and search. the previous release was exciting because its search and find works as given in the post below http://www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2013/08/oracle-sql-developer-4-quick-hit-search-and-replace/
when you press Ctrl F a dialogue box open, you define the search criteria and the best and the greatest option was it comes up with the a dynamic box with the word selected and asks you for a action.
the dialogue box save vital space and gives more room for coding. the current version find and search box takes a lot of space and currently with menu, tool bar , status bar it takes up 25% of desktop space. with sql code getting more and more complex this SQL developer change is not good. oracle also needs to thinning the tabs, menu, tool bars to make more space for coding
thanks