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Ctrl+f is a bad offender. No I don't want to use your contextual search. I want to search for this word on this page!
by declan_roberts 6mo ago
Ctrl+f is a bad offender. No I don't want to use your contextual search. I want to search for this word on this page!
- kube-system 6mo agoHalf of the time those sites also lazy load anyway so whatever you're looking for isn't even in the DOM yet
- hansvm 6mo agoAnd lazy unload, so you can't find it even if you've already scrolled through the whole thing.
- underdeserver 6mo agoI used to hear it called "virtual scroll", and I remember webpages ballooning in RAM when they didn't do it.
- RugnirViking 6mo agothe text content of the site is not what is ballooning the RAM.
- raydev 6mo agoIf the page is lazy loading content then the local ctrl+f is not going to work, obviously. If you’re hinting at an argument about whether lazy loading content should exist, that’s a separate discussion. In my experience, pages that override ctrl+f do it for a good reason
- xur17 6mo agoEven in those cases I'd prefer to just be able to natively search the content that has been lazy loaded. I've run into more than one website where the search functionality they bound to control-f is horrible.
- MrDOS 6mo agoOn Firefox, the “Prevent Shortcut Takeover” can be used to prevent websites from binding to Ctrl+F/Cmd+F: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/prevent-shortcut-takeover/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/prevent-short....
- johnfn 6mo agoI think I've seen one page override ctrl-f for good reason -- it was a page that lazy loaded literally millions of lines of text that wouldn't have fit into RAM. Every single other page that does it just wastes my time. It's always a super janky slow implementation that somehow additionally fails to actually search through all the text on the page.
- mghackerlady 6mo agothen instead of lazy loading load chunks and paginate it like we used to
- sieabahlpark 6mo ago[dead]
- darajava 6mo agoJust use Ctrl+G - it does almost the exact same thing as Ctrl+F
- stronglikedan 6mo agoit's asking me for a line number
- magiclaw 6mo agoYeah, super annoying when that happens. A workaround is to click the address bar (or press ctrl+l unless that's been hijacked too) and then do ctrl+f.
- Cider9986 6mo agoCtrl-f for page search and ctrl-k for website search[1]. [1] https://fmhy.net https://fmhy.net
- aldos 6mo agoAgreed. I also like slash / to focus the primary input like on youtube