Text fragment links

[ncdave4life]

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!

Here's a test link:

https://sealevel.info/papers.html#:~:text=He%20or%20she%20formulates

Here's a similar test link, which uses a hack on the web page to make it also mostly work in Mozilla Firefox (but not in Palemoon):

https://sealevel.info/papers.html#:~:text=He%20or%20she

[Moonchild]

So a proprietary extension to the URL standard that is sugar for doing an in-page search. I bet an extension can be made to do just that without too much trouble.

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.

You make it sound as if this is something masses of people have been waiting for to be implemented in Pale Moon (2 words, capitalized, please) but this is the first time I've even heard of it. I also find it typically presumptuous that Google has proposed it to the W3C to be standardized while it looks more like a hack and UI consideration than something to include in the long-standing URL standard.

[jobbautista9]

OP, how is this any better than say, using the browser's find feature and typing out exactly the text you're looking for?

[RealityRipple]

https://realityripple.com/Software/Mozilla-Extensions/sttf/

Couldn't implement Prefix, Suffix, or textEnd because that's not how fastFind works, and I didn't want to iterate through a bunch of DOM nodes to do the searching myself. I might figure a way to get it done later.

[jobbautista9]

Thanks for the nice extension, RealityRipple. It works fine here. Btw, I sent you a PR at your github repo, which adds the ability to copy the link to selected text, like what the Chrome extension does.

[RealityRipple]

Updated to v1.1. I'll add a pref to turn that menu item off in the future.

Edit: Updated to v1.2 to include that pref and to hide the menu item if no text is selected.

Edit Again: Updated to v1.2.1 to url-encode copied fragments and correctly decode fragments (to get commas-in-search working).