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For me the two reasons I can't live without are 1. Firefox's ctrl-f search doesn't highlight all instances of a found item on the right hand side. It sounds pe

by 20k 4mo ago

For me the two reasons I can't live without are 1. Firefox's ctrl-f search doesn't highlight all instances of a found item on the right hand side. It sounds petty, but its a gigantic timesaver for looking through research documents 2. Firefox's tab crash recovery isn't as solid. I use chrome with fully persistent tabs, and its a gigantic pain if I can't re-open them If I could find a way to fix these I'd swap in a heartbeat

Ennea 4mo ago
Firefox has added highlighting of search terms in the page's scroll bar quite a few versions ago, if you want to give it another spin for that.
- 20k 4mo ago
  Weird, it still only highlights a single occurrence for me if I ctrl-f something, is there a setting for this or something?
  - Chiron1991 4mo ago
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  - jeroenhd 4mo ago
    You need to click "highlight all" to highlight all occurrences. It's the checkbox to the right of the search box. If you enable it for the first time, you may need to hit enter in the search bar again for it to show up (it remembers the setting and works instantly the next search)
    - 20k 4mo ago
      Apparently I'm just a moron and have never seen it has settings in 10+ years. Thanks!
plqbfbv 4mo ago
> 2. Firefox's tab crash recovery isn't as solid. I use chrome with fully persistent tabs, and its a gigantic pain if I can't re-open them I normally have 5-50 tabs open (so perhaps on the lower end), but I can't recall the last time I crashed a tab in the last 3 years. I also use persistent/pinned tabs and never noticed issues.
- 20k 4mo ago
  Its not the tabs themselves crashing, its when firefox (or my pc as a whole - I'm a developer and its a frequent occurance) crashes, firefox isn't as good as chrome at remembering what tabs were previously open
misswaterfairy 4mo ago
Do these Firefox extensions help? I haven't used this, as I didn't know it was a feature I needed until you mentioned it. - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/find-in-page-with-preview/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/find-in-page-... Tab Session Manager allows you to dump tabs to groups for restoration later, with auto-save at regular intervals. Works quite well! - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-session-manager/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-session-m...
- 20k 4mo ago
  Thanks for this, I'll go have a look
- Itoldmyselfso 4mo ago
  There's also Simple tab groups which allows creation of file backups at regular intervals https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-groups/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr...

by 20k 4mo ago

Ennea 4mo ago

Firefox has added highlighting of search terms in the page's scroll bar quite a few versions ago, if you want to give it another spin for that.

20k 4mo ago
Weird, it still only highlights a single occurrence for me if I ctrl-f something, is there a setting for this or something?
- Chiron1991 4mo ago
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- deleted 4mo ago
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- jeroenhd 4mo ago
  You need to click "highlight all" to highlight all occurrences. It's the checkbox to the right of the search box. If you enable it for the first time, you may need to hit enter in the search bar again for it to show up (it remembers the setting and works instantly the next search)
  - 20k 4mo ago
    Apparently I'm just a moron and have never seen it has settings in 10+ years. Thanks!

plqbfbv 4mo ago

> 2. Firefox's tab crash recovery isn't as solid. I use chrome with fully persistent tabs, and its a gigantic pain if I can't re-open them I normally have 5-50 tabs open (so perhaps on the lower end), but I can't recall the last time I crashed a tab in the last 3 years. I also use persistent/pinned tabs and never noticed issues.

20k 4mo ago
Its not the tabs themselves crashing, its when firefox (or my pc as a whole - I'm a developer and its a frequent occurance) crashes, firefox isn't as good as chrome at remembering what tabs were previously open

misswaterfairy 4mo ago

Do these Firefox extensions help? I haven't used this, as I didn't know it was a feature I needed until you mentioned it. - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/find-in-page-with-preview/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/find-in-page-... Tab Session Manager allows you to dump tabs to groups for restoration later, with auto-save at regular intervals. Works quite well! - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-session-manager/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-session-m...

20k 4mo ago
Thanks for this, I'll go have a look
Itoldmyselfso 4mo ago
There's also Simple tab groups which allows creation of file backups at regular intervals https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-groups/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-gr...