Type-ahead-find

Find text or links as you type

What is Type-ahead-find?

'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.

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By: typeaheadfind

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Users: 10,000+

Rating: 4.49 (375)

Version: 0.4.5 (Last updated: 2021-11-23)

Creation date: 2014-11-28

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

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Size: 17.46K

Email: ty*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 7293 ▼ 46

Other rankings

#23135 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 20 #78 in default search keyword 17 ▲ 33 #120 in google search keyword 64 ▲ 132

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Summary

Analyze keywords

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

User reviews summary

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Pros

Improves navigation speed and productivity
Great for doing fresh installations
Quick selection and execution of links

Cons

Issues with support for Chinese search
Doesn't work with certain versions of Chrome
Can malfunction with certain tasks such as scrolling to matched selections

Most mentioned

Compatibility with Firefox
Improvement in navigation and productivity
Issues with typing Chinese

Recent reviews

It was REALLY 5 STAR extenstion because when you start typing forgetting to click the field - there was still typing! So you was able to copy already typed. Now when you click typed by this extension - it dissappears.. Dissapointing:( And even "enter" not working to go to next result so how to use it...