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I knew the existence of "/", but never figure out why I should use this instead of Ctrl+F. What's the difference (other than have fewer features)?

jannes 5y ago
The only difference I know of is that "/" focuses links. So when you press return, it loads the link instead of jumping to the next result. It's quite nice for keyboard-only web navigation.
- deleted 5y ago
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- polar 5y ago
  > "/" focuses links. It's ' to trigger quick find in links only mode.
  - kxrm 5y ago
    I had the same confusion with his comment but I think what he meant was that when you highlight a result in a link, pressing enter causes you to follow that link (which is true). You are correct that ' focuses on only searching within links though. Enter never goes to the next result though, so I am not sure if that is just something different between his setup and mine. I have to use F3 to go to the next result.
    - jannes 5y ago
      When I talked about enter going to the next result I was comparing it to the Ctrl+F search bar. Sorry if that wasn't clear. (English is not my first language)
kxrm 5y ago
This seems to be a good introduction to Quick Find. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/120679-enable-disable-quick-find-firefox.html https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/120679-enable-disable-qu...
- thrdbndndn 5y ago
  Ok, so the difference is: 1. It disappears after a few seconds. 2. It has no "next/previous/highlight all" etc. buttons (it still have these features, just no clickable buttons) It still makes no sense to me. I guess maybe a small portion of people would find the auto-disappearing thing useful, even though in normal Ctrl+F all you need to do is pressing Esc. But the second "feature" totally baffles me. It's not like Ctrl+F is some expensive GUI to launch, why would I want to not have these buttons? Even if you don't need them at all (I don't), you can simply not click them, there is no downside by having them.
  - lol768 5y ago
    Does the usual Ctrl+F GUI support filtering down to links only?
    - mejutoco 5y ago
      You can use the single quote character to search only links
    - thrdbndndn 5y ago
      It doesn't, but "/" does not do that either. It's "'" that works that way (and obviously useful). I just don't know about "/".
  - aabbcc1241 5y ago
    And this has collision with my vim extension

jannes 5y ago

The only difference I know of is that "/" focuses links. So when you press return, it loads the link instead of jumping to the next result. It's quite nice for keyboard-only web navigation.

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polar 5y ago
> "/" focuses links. It's ' to trigger quick find in links only mode.
- kxrm 5y ago
  I had the same confusion with his comment but I think what he meant was that when you highlight a result in a link, pressing enter causes you to follow that link (which is true). You are correct that ' focuses on only searching within links though. Enter never goes to the next result though, so I am not sure if that is just something different between his setup and mine. I have to use F3 to go to the next result.
  - jannes 5y ago
    When I talked about enter going to the next result I was comparing it to the Ctrl+F search bar. Sorry if that wasn't clear. (English is not my first language)

kxrm 5y ago

This seems to be a good introduction to Quick Find. https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/120679-enable-disable-quick-find-firefox.html https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/120679-enable-disable-qu...

thrdbndndn 5y ago
Ok, so the difference is: 1. It disappears after a few seconds. 2. It has no "next/previous/highlight all" etc. buttons (it still have these features, just no clickable buttons) It still makes no sense to me. I guess maybe a small portion of people would find the auto-disappearing thing useful, even though in normal Ctrl+F all you need to do is pressing Esc. But the second "feature" totally baffles me. It's not like Ctrl+F is some expensive GUI to launch, why would I want to not have these buttons? Even if you don't need them at all (I don't), you can simply not click them, there is no downside by having them.
- lol768 5y ago
  Does the usual Ctrl+F GUI support filtering down to links only?
  - mejutoco 5y ago
    You can use the single quote character to search only links
  - thrdbndndn 5y ago
    It doesn't, but "/" does not do that either. It's "'" that works that way (and obviously useful). I just don't know about "/".
- aabbcc1241 5y ago
  And this has collision with my vim extension