Mark My Search by ator-dev

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Rated 3 out of 5
by Kjetil Torgrim Homme, 18 days ago
Tried it out, but did not understand how to use it properly. Ie., it says "rapid scrolling to matches", but I could not find a key to do that?

Perhaps I should explain what I am looking for: The default Firefox search has two huge usability issues:

1) it has no visual feedback for where the next occurence is. On a web page with lots of coloured text, moving the highlight does not stand out, especially when the entire page jumps at the same time.

2) It will go to occurences of text which are not visible, and have no indication of that fact. Combined with issue 1, this can cause lengthy manual eyeballing trying to find out where the search is.

This extension improves on neither of these problems.

I guess this extension can be useful for some, but it currently has no tangible benefit for me.
Developer response
posted 18 days ago
Hi, thanks for the feedback! I'm very busy so not improving the extension currently, but I can help with usability.

You saw the toolbar pop up with a list of keywords? If a keyword button is coloured-in, matches were found, and you can scroll to them one-by-one by clicking the button.

Alternatively, you can use a keyboard shortcut. By default on Windows it's Alt+1 to jump to the next match for the keyword 1, and Alt+Shift+1 to jump to the previous match.

(On other platforms it's Alt+Shift+1 and Ctrl+Shift+1 due to shortcut conflicts.)

1) - MMS scrolls the page smoothly. It places coloured markers next to the scroll bar, just like Firefox, but it also pops out markers when you jump to the corresponding match. It also pulses the block of text containing the match.

2) - I do my best, but it's a hard problem! I don't know whether MMS is better than Firefox.

By the way, you may wish to disable automatic web search highlighting if you don't want that. Just open the popup and un-check Detect search engines.

Developer response