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I've been using keyboard navigation in Firefox for years and haven't looked back. Head to options > advanced > general and check "search for text when I start

• albedoa 15y ago
  Ah, the notorious Issue 150 in Chrome. The Chromium team think its only use case is "to save a keystroke before finding" and that including an option to turn it on would be confusing to users: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=150 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=150 It was a hot issue before they closed comments, namely due to Peter Kasting's hasty and misguided initial response. I personally have yet to meet a Firefox user who is confused by the FAYT option, but that's just my experience.
• mike-cardwell 15y ago
  Woh. Why did I not know about this? It's brilliant. Why isn't this turned on by default?
• thristian 15y ago
  You don't even have to do that: with Firefox default settings, tapping "/" will start searching for text in the page, while tapping "'" (apostrophe) will start searching for text only in the context of links. Editing a page is 'edit on the wikis I use most often, for example.
  • tbe 15y ago
    The problem with / and ' is that they might start the search in a region of the page not currently visible. The hit-a-hint solutions limit the search to the visible portion of the page, which is much, much more productive. You typically have your eyes already on the link you want to follow, and any scrolling of the page as a result of finding matches will completely ruin the experience.