Text Fragment Links, pars secunda

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Text Fragment Links, pars secunda

Unread post by ncdave4life » 2025-03-24, 00:58

Four years ago I asked in the forums:
Chrome and the two leading Chromium-based browsers, Opera and Edge, all support the new and very useful "text fragment links" feature, but Palemoon still doesn't. I wish it did!
All major browsers now support Text Fragment Links, except Brave and Pale Moon. Will y'all please implement this necessary feature? (Here's a discussion of some nuances.)

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Re: Text Fragment Links, pars secunda

Unread post by Moonchild » 2025-03-24, 07:33

Have you even tried the extension that RealityRipple made specifically for your request?
URLs are long-established and well-understood browsing elements. I really don't see why this custom extension to it that would needlessly complicate things just to automate in-page search actions (which in our current environment of dynamically-created content likely won't even be useful at page load time, making the loading and parsing page processes also impacted as things will have to be delayed just to be able to match any search provided in the URL!).
The "discussion" of nuances isn't a discussion, instead it is just calling everything that doesn't precisely cater to OPs specific workflow a "bug". They aren't bugs. In fact, I can imagine that implementing this would lead to actual bugs (in parsing, navigating to and handling URLs), sec hazards, and more.
So, I repeat: Have you even tried the extension that RealityRipple made specifically for your request? Or did you just let him waste his time on something you aren't interested in?
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Re: Text Fragment Links, pars secunda

Unread post by moonbat » 2025-03-25, 01:19

Before asking for a new feature please, please look at the addons site first to see if there's an extension that already offers the ability. Extensions allow 50 different people requesting 50 different features to be catered to without interfering with one another. You want this text fragment feature, but nobody else does for it to be stuffed into the browser core. This is not Firefox or Chrome where bloating the browser with unnecessary features is the only way to go because of the heavily limited web extensions technology they use.

A web browser is primarily a remote document viewer (and not a virtual machine for remote applications as Chrome has been doing). Any other functionality can be added on as an extension, and there are 200+ of those just on the Pale Moon addons site.
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