link-to-text-fragment

I don't use Vivaldi in order to know what its limitations are, but as I mentioned I have to run with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/link-to-text-... (source: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/link-to-text-fragment Apache 2) due to FF itself not offering that functionality natively TBH, I also previously just popped open dev-tools and pasted the copied text into console.log("#:~:text="+encodeURIComponent(...)) which was annoying, for sure, but I didn't do it often enough to enrage me. I believe there's a DOM method to retrieve the selected text which would have made that much, much easier but I didn't bother looking it up For posterity, I also recently learned that Chrome just appends the :~: onto any existing anchor, e.g. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43336609#43375605:~:tex...> but of course Firefox hurp-derps t

There's an addon for Text Fragment support in Safari and Firefox: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/link-to-text-fragment If someone sends this link to you, it will open just fine. If you send a link to someone else there's a very high probability they use Chrome. Otherwise, you can recommend them this extension. It's the first time I heard about this new potentially standard feature, and it's very very useful. Thank you!

The extension’s author here. Just wanted to let you know that—apart from Chrome—it’s also available for Edge, and a beta version based on a (still unfinished) polyfill for Firefox. The same code also works on Safari 14, we hope to release it there, too. Install links: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/link-to-text-fragment#in...