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show locations of searched words in page

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mingmin
mingmin
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like the attached image showed, in other browsers (like chrome), when I search a word, it not only highlight the words in page, but also show the locations beside the scroll bar to indicate the locations of these words in page, which is very helpful.

like the attached image showed, in other browsers (like chrome), when I search a word, it not only highlight the words in page, but also show the locations beside the scroll bar to indicate the locations of these words in page, which is very helpful.
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mingmin
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images added in question but don't know why not showing up, so post the image here

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McCoy
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Hello mingmen,

Would you take a look at this article please :

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-contents-current-page-text-or-links

'Hope that is what you are looking for ......

mingmin
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McCoy said

Hello mingmen, Would you take a look at this article please : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-contents-current-page-text-or-links 'Hope that is what you are looking for ......

Thanks for your reply, I have carefully read this page before, and have not found what I need.

Tell me if I need more explanation of the problem I have addressed in the question.

Also, I have updated the image with some comments, by which I hope can make myself a little more clear

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McCoy
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I missed the part about showing the location beside the scrollbar (sorry ...).

'Found this add-on for you, which I hope will put a smile on your face :

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/highlightall/

mingmin
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McCoy said

I missed the part about showing the location beside the scrollbar (sorry ...). 'Found this add-on for you, which I hope will put a smile on your face : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/highlightall/

Thanks, I have tried this add-on too, it failed to show the locations.

I think this question is more like a proposal of feature request, is here a right place to post this? if not, I will close this

Thanks again for your quick response.

McCoy
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mingmin said

I think this question is more like a proposal of feature request, is here a right place to post this? if not, I will close this

Bummer  ! I was so sure that add-on would be 'it' .....  :(

Yes, you can submit your request on one (or all) of these :

Input page : https://qsurvey.mozilla.com/s3/FirefoxInput/

Discourse  : https://discourse.mozilla.org/c/firefox-development

Reddit  : https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/

Twitter  : https://twitter.com/firefox

Facebook  : https://www.facebook.com/Firefox

Good luck  !