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Is there any way of making Ctrl+f in Chrome use the selected text, as per Firefox?

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 202631137 views
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One thing that's really bugged me since switching to Chrome is that Ctrl + F behaves slightly differently from Firefox. In Firefox, if you have text highlighted and hit Ctrl + F, it'll start finding with that text. Is there any way of getting Chrome to do this?

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This issue was once raised in Chrome and is documented in : Issue 6356004: If the user selects text in the current tab, and types CTRL-F,... (Closed) In this Issue article, six successive patches were applied to Chrome to enable this functionality. However, because of too numerous unsolved issues, such as line breaks and other characters that can't be printed in the find box, the developer Simon Morris has given up and concluded : Besides these issues, this behavior just doesn't feel terribly c…

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