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03-02-2015, 08:02 AM
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Registered: May 2009
Location: center of singularity
Distribution: Xubuntu, Ubuntu, Slackware, Amazon Linux, OpenBSD, LFS (on Sparc_32 and i386)
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firefox - search within a page
normally firefox can search within a page with the Find function or Ctrl-F but when visiting a site where their javascript takes over these functions is there a way to force firefox to scroll down to specific text? the problem is that many documentation sites take this over and run a search to find a page with that text ... if the found page is very large then i cannot see what i was looking for ... sites such as https://readthedocs.org/ do this.
Last edited by Skaperen; 03-02-2015 at 08:09 AM.
Reason: fix brain glitch
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03-02-2015, 09:50 AM
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Registered: Dec 2011
Location: UK
Distribution: Debian Sid AMD64, Raspbian Wheezy, various VMs
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I tend to just hit forward slash for search, which I think Firefox is the only browser to do and bases it on vi?
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03-03-2015, 04:50 AM
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i will try that
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it does not seem to support the 'n' key operation to move to the next occurrence
Last edited by Skaperen; 03-03-2015 at 05:02 AM.
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03-05-2015, 01:01 AM
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I think only Ctrl+G works for next, unfortunately.
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03-05-2015, 04:29 AM
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If jscript takes that shortcut then you can use one present in menu. Well perhaps this may still be present. Last I used firefox was version 22 or something.
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03-05-2015, 06:00 AM
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Cntrl+G works at least on th mentioned web site.
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