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Reggie · 05-09-2023

I regularly search for text within textarea textboxes, e.g. on https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ It would be very useful if the message on the Find bar "Reached end of page, continued from Top" would appear in a highlight colour for a few se...

Reggie · 03-07-2023

Currently Chrome supports the URI fragment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_fragment#:~:text=foo which will highlight the first occurrence of the word "foo".An improved version of this would be to automatically open the "search text within page" bar...

Reggie · 07-24-2022

I regularly edit a textarea that has a lot of text and has a vertical scrollbar.It would be useful if the search term location(s) within the textarea were shown as marker bars on the vertical scoll bar (similar to the bar on the side of the window fo...

Reggie · 06-27-2022

If you right-click on any valid link on a web page you get a set of options "Open link in new tab", "Bookmark Link" etc.To do this for a link that is text in a textarea, you have to very carefully select the URL only, without any extra characters bef...

Reggie · 06-27-2022

I do a lot of copying and pasting from the text on web pages or in text boxes. It would save a huge amount of time if I could use the ALT key (or OPTION on Apple) at the start of a cursor drag operation to select text to select from the nearest previ...

Reggie · 10-30-2023

Hi, this is now part of Firefox for Android, but you need to enable it - under "Settings" -> "Customise" -> "Pull to refresh"

Reggie · 05-12-2023

This is also useful for long pages where it is easy to miss the roll-over at the end of the page, for example https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DUR/Transcriptions/STD1765#:~:text=LongstaffNOTE: I have include the text fragment in the link. Chrome alr...

Reggie · 03-07-2023

I noticed that this appears to work within these apparent "textbox" areas in https://connect.mozilla.org/ (so, if you write a comment in this area and it is long enough to require a scrollbar on the right, the search ticks appear.) However, this is b...

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When searching, briefly highlight the "Reached end of page, continued from Top" message

Support Text Fragments and create URI from the find bar

Display search locations on textarea vertical scroll bar

Right-click on a valid URL in a textarea to show the "Open Link" options

Use ALT + cursor drag to automatically select text on word boundaries

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Re: Display search locations on textarea vertical scroll bar