Find text or links as you type
Type-ahead-find: Enhance Your Web Search Experience
'Type-ahead-find' is a powerful Chrome extension designed to drastically improve your browsing experience by facilitating faster webpage searching. As you start typing or pressing '/', it begins a text search, while pressing ' ' enables searching only links. It offers changing the 'direct search state' option for default search policy. You can switch between matches using keys and can initiate a toggle matching mode with F4 once the search is active. Also, there's an option to blacklist sites with their own shortcuts. Perfect for those looking for swift, efficient browsing, but note it cannot search within iframes or text in adjacent HTML nodes, and might misbehave if the page already sets JavaScript keybindings.
Extension stats
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
- storage
Size: 17.46K
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Extension summary
Type-ahead-find [1] is an accessibility feature to search links and text faster on a webpage. How to use it:
- Start writing (or press /) to start text search.
- Press ' to search only links.
- Change option "direct search state" to set the default search policy (text, links or disabled).
- Use (Shift+)F3 or (Shift+)Control+G or Alt+N/P to switch between matches.
- Use F4 to toggle matching mode (text/links) once the search is active.
- Blacklist sites that set up their own shortcuts.
- The search shows first matches in current viewport.
Limitations:
- It cannot search inside iframes.
- It does not search text in adjacent HTML nodes (i.e. "hello" won't be found in HTML Hello)
- If the page already sets Javascript keybidings, the extension may misbehave. The best solution is to blacklist the site in the options page and disable the extension for this particular website.
User reviews
Pros
- Essential extension for Chrome based browsers
- Improves navigation speed and productivity
- Fast selection and execution of links
- Works perfectly for many users
- A must-have for fresh installations
Cons
- Not working in current Chrome versions
- Find button did absolutely nothing
- Difficult to use with contextual searches
- Doesn't support source code view
- Sometimes doesn't scroll to found matches
Most mentioned
- Not working in current Chrome versions
- Works perfectly for many users
- Essential extension for Chrome based browsers
- Improves navigation speed and productivity
User reviews
Hope this Extension gets an update to work in future.
by
Rob Jay, 2025-01-15
Essential extension for Chrome based browsers. The best and most useful of all my extensions. I use it constantly.
by
Bengt Alverborg, 2024-12-04
Find button did absolutely nothing
by
Chris Vydas, 2024-11-04
Extension safety
Risk impact
Type-ahead-find requires very minimum permissions.
Risk impact analysis details
- High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
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Risk likelihood
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