I have to admit that I’m not using Firefox’s built-in search bar to search on the Internet. I use the space for other interface elements and search directly on sites that offer search. It is a trade-off, other users make use of the search bar in the browser. One of the things that is missing [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

What do you normally do if you find text on a website that you want to research further? You either copy and paste the text into a search form, or type the text manually into a search engine. Either way, you end up with a search results listing. Highlight to Search for the Google Chrome [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

The shortcut Ctrl-F opens the default on-page search form in Firefox. Here it is possible to enter a search term, Firefox will automatically jump to the first instance of the term on the page and highlight it. Additional options provided are to highlight all instances on the page, to match the case and to jump [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Web browsers, unlike text editors, do not have initial tools to highlight or mark text on websites. Probably not a problem on the average 500 word page but helpful if the word count goes up considerably. Imagine working on a 200 page document on a website, might even take a day or two to read [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Wired-Marker (via Download Squad) is a text highlighter add-on for Firefox that can mark selected text in different colors just like a marker would to paper text. The information are saved so that the highlights are visible whenever the page is visited. The information are stored in a local databases which can be moved to [...]

Categories: Firefox