Firefox users have an almost unmanageable amount of add-ons, bookmarklets, user scripts and other tools for searching the Internet at their disposal. The choice is however severely limited when it comes to local searches. Local meaning searches on websites that are currently displayed in the Firefox web browser.
The shortcut [CTRL F] allows them to search in the active tab but that’s about it. The following article contains three interesting and hopefully useful Firefox tips that improve the local search in the Firefox web browser. Two of the tips are add-ons for the web browser while the last is a setting that provides smoother access to the local search options.
Tip 1: Getting rid of [CTRL F]
The first tip is a basic tip but nonetheless helpful for users who search on pages regularly. Firefox offers an option to start the search on the page immediately without having to press CTRL F first.
Users who want to change to the faster way of searching on a page can do so by opening the Firefox options, switching to the advanced tab in the options and checking the Search for test when I start typing box. It is from then on possible to perform a search on the same page by simply typing the search term.
Tip 2: Search in all open tabs
The Find in tabs add-on provides another interesting search option. It allows Firefox users to search in all open tabs instead of just the active tab. This can be pretty useful for users who do research and have multiple tabs open on the same subject.
Tip 3 Smart Find Add-on
The Smart Find add-on adds another interesting option to the Firefox search option. It can find words related to the search phrase which is extremely helpful if words (either the search phrase or the phrase on the website) has been misspelled.
Do you know other tips or Firefox add-ons that improve the local search in the web browser? Let us know in the comments.
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I use SearchWp: “Find terms entered in the search box easily with jump-to-word buttons and highlighting. Words typed in the search box are converted into buttons that can be used to find them in the current page.”
http://legege.com/en/mozilla/searchwp
It’s like the highlighting from the google toolbar, only with a lighter extension, and works with any search engine.
Don’t forget about very useful interactive “incremental search” aka search as you type, invoked with ‘/’ (like in most of usinx pagers, e.g. ‘less’). You can go to next occurence of currently found phrase with ^G (like for normal find in page)