Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
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Re: Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
#2Sidenote: please don't hijack CTRL+F on webpages, thanks. Sincerely, the world.
Re: Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
#3Very nice! Hopefully Firefox developers have the bandwidth to implement this as well, and not let Google Chrome have this feature as an "embrace and extend" differentiator.
As for MS-Edge, well I guess it must be funny for Microsoft to see they're getting a taste of their own sweet old medicine...
Re: Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
#4Sidenote: please don't hijack CTRL+F on webpages, thanks. Sincerely, the world.
Sometimes they "need" to, because rather than load 100kB of text, they'll chunk 100kB of text over ten JSON requests and searching requires backend intervention. If you make every web page an app, the browser doesn't work right anymore so you force yourself to build a browser within a browser!
Re: Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
#5Very nice! Hopefully Firefox developers have the bandwidth to implement this as well, and not let Google Chrome have this feature as an "embrace and extend" differentiator. As for MS-Edge, well I guess it must be funny for Microsoft to see they're getting a taste of their own sweet old medicine...
This feature seems to work on Firefox as far as I can tell. It used to be one of those Chrome APIs, but now every browser but Safari seems to support them completely. I'm sure the Safari team can quickly implement the last bit of Javascript API when they get the opportunity to.
Re: Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
#6Very nice! Hopefully Firefox developers have the bandwidth to implement this as well, and not let Google Chrome have this feature as an "embrace and extend" differentiator. As for MS-Edge, well I guess it must be funny for Microsoft to see they're getting a taste of their own sweet old medicine...
> As for MS-Edge, well I guess it must be funny for Microsoft to see they're getting a taste of their own sweet old medicine...
Can you elaborate on this a bit?
Re: Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
#7Very nice! Hopefully Firefox developers have the bandwidth to implement this as well, and not let Google Chrome have this feature as an "embrace and extend" differentiator. As for MS-Edge, well I guess it must be funny for Microsoft to see they're getting a taste of their own sweet old medicine...
It works just fine on Firefox. The things that seems to be Chrome-only is the "select some text, right click to get direct link" bit, and the "link to text that is hidden".
Re: Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
#8Sidenote: please don't hijack CTRL+F on webpages, thanks. Sincerely, the world.
I've seen that on pages with text editors that don't load all the text or where search is expanded with more features, like for example on Github.
In these cases I usually click outside the editor and then control+f works as usual.
If not, you can also try F3, and if that's hijacked too browsers usually have a shortcut to "find in page" in the hamburguer/three-dots menu
Re: Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
#9Very nice! Hopefully Firefox developers have the bandwidth to implement this as well, and not let Google Chrome have this feature as an "embrace and extend" differentiator. As for MS-Edge, well I guess it must be funny for Microsoft to see they're getting a taste of their own sweet old medicine...
Edge does have a "Copy link to highlight" option in its context menu.
Re: Smarter Than 'Ctrl+F': Linking Directly to Web Page Content
#10Very nice! Hopefully Firefox developers have the bandwidth to implement this as well, and not let Google Chrome have this feature as an "embrace and extend" differentiator. As for MS-Edge, well I guess it must be funny for Microsoft to see they're getting a taste of their own sweet old medicine...
This feature seems to work on Firefox as far as I can tell. It used to be one of those Chrome APIs, but now every browser but Safari seems to support them completely. I'm sure the Safari team can quickly implement the last bit of Javascript API when they get the opportunity to.
The feature "seems to work on Firefox" if you're using the version of Firefox released 10 days ago [0]
It's not implemented in Firefox ESR and won't be until June 2025 [1]