The newly available ‘Auto Find Text Fragment’ extension for Firefox makes it possible to link to specific text on a web page and the selected text will be scrolled and highlighted automatically when you visit or click that URL in Firefox and other Chromium browsers.
Google has built the Scroll to text fragment feature for the Chromium browser and is already using it for featured snippets on its search results.
With the help of recently released Link to Text Fragment extension, you can link to the particular text on the web page, and when you share or open that link in a new tab, browser scrolls to the text and highlights it. The extension works in Chrome, new Microsoft Edge, and other Chromium browsers.
Mozilla has some objections to implementing the text fragment links feature in the Firefox browser.
Worry not! now an extension available on AMO mimics ” Google Chrome’s #.~: text fragment “scroll to text” behavior ” in Firefox and it auto-creates text fragment link when you select a string of words and click the extension icon, the link works and opens in Chromium browsers also.
Auto find Text fragment Firefox Extension
1. Launch Firefox browser
2. Visit https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-find-text-fragment/
3. Install the extension
4. Visit any web page, select text or some words,
5. Click the extension icon for the extension to generate a link on the same page (which you see in the ULR bar with selected text appended to “https://example.com/#:~:text=),
6. Copy the text fragment URL and share or open a new tab and paste it on the address bar.
UPDATE July 07, 2020: Chrome’s Link to Text Fragment extension developer released the same extension for Firefox and is now available on AMO for download.
You can download the ‘Link to Text Fragment’ Extension for Firefox from here.
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