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I switched to Chrome Dev a few weeks ago (Debian Stable doesn't quite understand "browsers really do need to update faster than everything else" yet) and have b
by exikyut 6y ago
I switched to Chrome Dev a few weeks ago (Debian Stable doesn't quite understand "browsers really do need to update faster than everything else" yet) and have been seeing this for a little while now.
I really like it, because of what it enables.
For appropriately recent browsers, Google occasionally incorporates text fragment snippets into search results. So I can jump straight from reading the result synopsis to seeing that synopsis in context - the new page loads, a bunch of text is yellow, my eyes get drawn to it immediately, but it's not overly intrusive and I can decide where I want to start reading in any case (for scenarios where Google's algorithm gets it wrong).
I'd say it's worked in almost all cases; the one exception I've experienced was a scenario where once the page had finished jumping around on load and showing all its modal popups, the hilighted text was slightly offscreen.
The way the feature works is that the hilight disappears the moment you click anywhere on the page or scroll. So of course I needed to both scroll the text into view, and click to hide the popup, at which point I had no idea where the hilight started.
I guess this is the general antifeature of this feature; this has probably already been taken into account and accepted as a generally unfixable quirk.