searcher.js: handle missing RegExp.escape #1442
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That API is more recent than I expected, so there is still a small minority of browsers that may be missing it.
But this escaping is only needed when the search context special chars, which too is a minority of searches.
Given that, I think it's better to just not escape if support is missing.
cc @st0012