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> (a quick Ctrl+F will bring up the name/date/etc.) Have you tried asking for the citation links to also include a WebFragment to save you the searching? (e.g.

> (a quick Ctrl+F will bring up the name/date/etc.) Have you tried asking for the citation links to also include a WebFragment to save you the searching? (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43372171#:~:text=a%20quick%20Ctrl%2BF https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43372171#:~:text=a%20qu... )

johnisgood 2y ago
I feel that this is under{rated,used}.
- mdaniel 2y ago
  I was waiting so long for this to finally arrive in Firefox (and now I can't seem to unsubscribe from Bugzilla for some reason -- I guess "because Bugzilla"). However, in true FF fashion, I'm sure it'll be another 10 years before the "Copy link to selection" arrives like its Chrome friend, so I have an extension to tide me over :-/
  - johnisgood 2y ago
    Do you know how to use this feature in, say, Vivaldi if it is even possible? I want to select text and have it appended to the URL.
    - mdaniel 2y ago
      I don't use Vivaldi in order to know what its limitations are, but as I mentioned I have to run with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/link-to-text-fragment/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/link-to-text-... (source: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/link-to-text-fragment https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/link-to-text-fragment Apache 2) due to FF itself not offering that functionality natively TBH, I also previously just popped open dev-tools and pasted the copied text into console.log("#:~:text="+encodeURIComponent(...)) which was annoying, for sure, but I didn't do it often enough to enrage me. I believe there's a DOM method to retrieve the selected text which would have made that much, much easier but I didn't bother looking it up For posterity, I also recently learned that Chrome just appends the :~: onto any existing anchor, e.g. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43336609#43375605:~:text=Vivaldi%20if%20it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43336609#43375605:~:tex...> but of course Firefox hurp-derps that style link
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      - johnisgood 2y ago
        I installed "link-to-text-fragment", but: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=43376342&goto=threads%3Fid%3Djohnisgood%2343376342#:~:text=i%20don't%20use%20vivaldi%20in%20order%20to%20know%20what%20its%20limitations%20are%2C%20but%20as%20i%20mentioned%20i%20have%20to%20run%20with%20https%3A%2F%2Faddons.mozilla.org%2Fen-us%2Ffirefox%2Faddon%2Flink-to-text-...%20(source%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fgooglechromelabs%2Flink-to-text-fragment%20apache%202)%20due%20to%20ff%20itself%20not%20offering%20that%20functionality%20natively https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=43376342&goto=threads%... does not seem to work. :( It only highlights once I copied link to selected text, but if I click on the link, it does not seem to work, yours did.

johnisgood 2y ago

I feel that this is under{rated,used}.

mdaniel 2y ago
I was waiting so long for this to finally arrive in Firefox (and now I can't seem to unsubscribe from Bugzilla for some reason -- I guess "because Bugzilla"). However, in true FF fashion, I'm sure it'll be another 10 years before the "Copy link to selection" arrives like its Chrome friend, so I have an extension to tide me over :-/
- johnisgood 2y ago
  Do you know how to use this feature in, say, Vivaldi if it is even possible? I want to select text and have it appended to the URL.
  - mdaniel 2y ago
    I don't use Vivaldi in order to know what its limitations are, but as I mentioned I have to run with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/link-to-text-fragment/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/link-to-text-... (source: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/link-to-text-fragment https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/link-to-text-fragment Apache 2) due to FF itself not offering that functionality natively TBH, I also previously just popped open dev-tools and pasted the copied text into console.log("#:~:text="+encodeURIComponent(...)) which was annoying, for sure, but I didn't do it often enough to enrage me. I believe there's a DOM method to retrieve the selected text which would have made that much, much easier but I didn't bother looking it up For posterity, I also recently learned that Chrome just appends the :~: onto any existing anchor, e.g. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43336609#43375605:~:text=Vivaldi%20if%20it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43336609#43375605:~:tex...> but of course Firefox hurp-derps that style link
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    - johnisgood 2y ago
      I installed "link-to-text-fragment", but: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=43376342&goto=threads%3Fid%3Djohnisgood%2343376342#:~:text=i%20don't%20use%20vivaldi%20in%20order%20to%20know%20what%20its%20limitations%20are%2C%20but%20as%20i%20mentioned%20i%20have%20to%20run%20with%20https%3A%2F%2Faddons.mozilla.org%2Fen-us%2Ffirefox%2Faddon%2Flink-to-text-...%20(source%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fgooglechromelabs%2Flink-to-text-fragment%20apache%202)%20due%20to%20ff%20itself%20not%20offering%20that%20functionality%20natively https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=43376342&goto=threads%... does not seem to work. :( It only highlights once I copied link to selected text, but if I click on the link, it does not seem to work, yours did.