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Discourse (forum) used to hijack Ctrl+F (Command+F) shortcut which makes it super irritating! Not sure if they have changed that.
In that case Ctrl+f is redirected to a search that is scoped to the current topic and can search it all.
Other pages don't have the search hijacked, and of they do you can press Ctrl+f twice to open the browser search.
You can paste something like this into your javascript console: setInterval(function() { window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight); }, 2000); That will scroll continuously, so you can let it run for a while and then do ctrl-F. It might take a while but you can do something else. I've used it successfully many times (usually when I wanted to scrape the DOM for some reason or another, rather than just do a search)…
Or just put something heavy on your keyboard's "End" key :)
You can paste something like this into your javascript console: setInterval(function() { window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight); }, 2000); That will scroll continuously, so you can let it run for a while and then do ctrl-F. It might take a while but you can do something else. I've used it successfully many times (usually when I wanted to scrape the DOM for some reason or another, rather than just do a search)…
I've tried this twice in the last year or so: once on twitter and once on dropbox. Neither time did it work. It _seemed_ that ctrl+f would not find anything that was not visible +/- a screen height or two. I couldn't tell if it was a shortcoming of Firefox (unlikely IMO) or both sites tried to be clever about dynamically unloading content when it was outside the view window (more likely).
Infinite scroll is one of those things that needs to die.
Nope, I love infinite scroll as a user. I even use extensions to add it to paginated websites. I wish those websites had infinite scroll as default or as an option cause infinite scroll extensions can be jankey. Not saying there aren't bad implementations of infinite scroll out there, those do need to die off, but they aren't that common.
A compromise may be a browser option that one can set globally to indicate whether one wants pagination (and how many results per page) or infini-scroll.
Discourse (forum) used to hijack Ctrl+F (Command+F) shortcut which makes it super irritating! Not sure if they have changed that.
That is only done if you are in a topic page where the amount of posts is higher than 20 replies. In that case Ctrl+f is redirected to a search that is scoped to the current topic and can search it all. Other pages don't have the search hijacked, and of they do you can press Ctrl+f twice to open the browser search.