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    • A Former User
      A Former User last edited by

      Often times when you open a web page that you found using a search engine you want to see the keywords you're looking for. To do this you have to press Ctrl + F and type in the keyword, which can be tedious if you do this repeatedly. I think it would be great if the keywords were highlighted automatically.

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      • A Former User
        A Former User last edited by

        When you search for a word or phrase, does not every instance on the page get highlighted? It does for me. Maybe the fact that I am using Midnight Lizard to theme the pages makes a difference?

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        • burnout426
          burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

          For Google for example, if you search for test and click on a link to example.com in the search results, you want Opera to look at the referrer where it sees https://www.google.com/search?q=test, where Opera then parses it to find "test" and then does an automated ctrl + f for "test" on the example.com page you go to after it loads?

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          • A Former User
            A Former User @burnout426 last edited by

            @burnout426 that's right.

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            • burnout426
              burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

              Sounds possible at least (on a per-search-engine-basis).

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              • A Former User
                A Former User @burnout426 last edited by

                @burnout426 I remember there was an extension for Chrome long time ago that did that, but I think It became incompatible with later versions.

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                • burnout426
                  burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                  @yuriy111 If you find the link though, please post it.

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                  • just-blabla
                    just-blabla last edited by

                    Firefox addon „searchwp“, what is not available anymore. See here: https://github.com/legege/searchwp

                    See my post here : https://forums.opera.com/topic/36148/highlighting-search-words

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