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

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 10,000+

Rating: 4.49 (373)

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

Permissions:

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Size: 17.46K

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

Ranking

# 6684 ▼ 1

Other rankings

#24089 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 21 #78 in default search keyword 14 #186 in google search keyword 47 #229 in press keyword 17 ▼ 5 #282 in start page keyword 35 ▲

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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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

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Fast selection and execution of links.
Improves navigation speed and productivity.
Works perfectly for many users on different browsers.
Great for keyboard navigation and control.
Long-term user satisfaction.

Cons

Doesn't work in current Chrome versions.
Not functioning in source code view.
Difficult with contextual searches.
Sometimes fails to scroll to matches.
Lack of updates since 2014.

Most mentioned

Works perfectly.
Been using it for many years.
Improvements in navigation speed and productivity.
Not working in current Chrome versions.
Surprised it isn't part of core functionality.

Recent reviews

Finally! I was looking for something like this. I was used to use the 'type to navigate' extension on Safari. It improves my navigation speed and productivity a lot.