October 19, 2004

Type-ahead find in FireFox

I wondered for a while why FireFox's "type-ahead find link" feature was not working for me (type ' and then the link you are looking for).  I finally figured out why:  this functionality looks for the text of the link, not the href.

Which is a bummer because looking for an href without having to open the source window would be quite convenient.

Does such a feature exist in FireFox?

 

Posted by cedric at October 19, 2004 02:42 PM
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Yes !
In fact, the default is to search links only, but you can change that :
Tools > Options > Advanced > Accessibility, and then uncheck the "to search links only" box.

Steph

Posted by: stephane at October 19, 2004 11:45 PM

Sorry, I realize my previous comment does not answer your question.
Steph

Posted by: stephane at October 20, 2004 12:06 AM

It would be an interesting feature. I have looked around but couldn't find something like this.
But... take a look at this: http://www.autohotkey.com/ (don't be afraid: is free and open source). You should be able to add this functionality quite easy.
I was impressed with it. I have changed on my laptop a win key to ctrl key with 2 lines :-).

Posted by: the_mindstorm at October 20, 2004 12:27 AM

Checking it out right now. Pretty sweet

Posted by: anjavishal at April 21, 2005 02:45 AM

Do an about:config in Firefox, and search for "linksonly." Set it to "false." Then it'll search all text.

Posted by: Morley Zhi at March 31, 2008 10:56 AM
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