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That "#:~:text=" highlighter is so annoying it has made me switch from Google Chrome to Firefox.

by bjornedstrom 6y ago

thih9 6y ago
I don’t have Chrome, could you elaborate? Where is the highlighter and what does it do?
- bjornedstrom 6y ago
  The link points to "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox#:~:text=In%20astrophysics%20and%20physical%20cosmology,infinite%20and%20eternal%20static%20universe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox#:~:text=In%2...." In case that renders as a link by Hacker News, I've added a space here and removed the https part: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox #:~:text=In%20astrophysics%20and%20physical%20cosmology,infinite%20and%20eternal%20static%20universe. What it does is that it highlights that text in the page, with a yellow background color. Making the rest of the text difficult to read (your eyes are drawn to the very yellow highlighted part).
  - Jap2-0 6y ago
    Agreed (I use Firefox), but (from being forced to use Chrome) you should be able to get the highlight to go away by clicking somewhere else on the page or by scrolling.
  - mlinksva 6y ago
    I love it, and have been manually creating such links every day since discovering the feature. One should be able to link to any portion of a page, and now one can, largely. The highlighting ought to be something a browser allows a user to customize, but I really wish Firefox (which I use about half the time) had the feature.
- Arnavion 6y ago
  More details at https://chromestatus.com/feature/4733392803332096 https://chromestatus.com/feature/4733392803332096 and https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment/ https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment/
xingyzt 6y ago
You can click to unhighlight. I find it useful for linking to a section of a page without an anchor nearby.
michaelcampbell 6y ago
That reminded me to look for extensions that automatically move mobile wikipedia links to desktop ones; thankfully there's one for both Chrome and FF.
- spixy 6y ago
  yes: https://github.com/spixy/NoMoreMobile https://github.com/spixy/NoMoreMobile
  - mlinksva 6y ago
    Would love to see that rendered superfluous https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Mobile_and_apps/Show_mobile_site_without_the_.m_subdomain https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_20...

That "#:~:text=" highlighter is so annoying it has made me switch from Google Chrome to Firefox.

thih9 6y ago

I don’t have Chrome, could you elaborate? Where is the highlighter and what does it do?

bjornedstrom 6y ago
The link points to "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox#:~:text=In%20astrophysics%20and%20physical%20cosmology,infinite%20and%20eternal%20static%20universe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox#:~:text=In%2...." In case that renders as a link by Hacker News, I've added a space here and removed the https part: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox #:~:text=In%20astrophysics%20and%20physical%20cosmology,infinite%20and%20eternal%20static%20universe. What it does is that it highlights that text in the page, with a yellow background color. Making the rest of the text difficult to read (your eyes are drawn to the very yellow highlighted part).
- Jap2-0 6y ago
  Agreed (I use Firefox), but (from being forced to use Chrome) you should be able to get the highlight to go away by clicking somewhere else on the page or by scrolling.
- mlinksva 6y ago
  I love it, and have been manually creating such links every day since discovering the feature. One should be able to link to any portion of a page, and now one can, largely. The highlighting ought to be something a browser allows a user to customize, but I really wish Firefox (which I use about half the time) had the feature.
Arnavion 6y ago
More details at https://chromestatus.com/feature/4733392803332096 https://chromestatus.com/feature/4733392803332096 and https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment/ https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment/

xingyzt 6y ago

You can click to unhighlight. I find it useful for linking to a section of a page without an anchor nearby.

michaelcampbell 6y ago

That reminded me to look for extensions that automatically move mobile wikipedia links to desktop ones; thankfully there's one for both Chrome and FF.

spixy 6y ago
yes: https://github.com/spixy/NoMoreMobile https://github.com/spixy/NoMoreMobile
- mlinksva 6y ago
  Would love to see that rendered superfluous https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Mobile_and_apps/Show_mobile_site_without_the_.m_subdomain https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_20...