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Title: How to add "Find" (Ctrl+F) to the context menu?
Post by: JohnDohe on October 17, 2017, 06:32:34 PM

Hi!

I want to add "Find" (Ctrl+F) (Menu bar > Edit > Find) to the right-click context
menu of my Windows 7 Pro pc.

I want to be able to select some text, right-click on that selected text, and have
"Find" appear as one of the options to then left-click on.

And after I've left-clicked on "Find" in that context menu I want the actual "Find"
popup window to appear (i.e., what happens when you press the Ctrl+F keys)
with my selected text pasted into its search window and the "found" numbers of text
indicated and highlighted in the body of the page. All I need do then is to click the
up or down caret, or press enter, to move the focus to the next found text.

My goal is eliminate the tedious and repetitious doubleclicking to select text, then
keying Ctrl+C to copy the selected text, Ctrl+F to open Find, and Ctrl+V to paste
my copied text into Find's search field.

I'm using Firefox 56.0 (64-bit).

Anyone know of a way to accomplish adding "Find" to the context menu?

Thanks!

Title: Re: How to add "Find" (Ctrl+F) to the context menu?
Post by: Mark. on October 17, 2017, 10:22:15 PM

I'm wondering if you are making it all harder than it needs to be.

I use PaleMoon (a Firefox fork) and I can double click the word I want, hit Ctrl+F and it preloads the selected text into the search field, ready for me to Next or Previous or just hit Enter repeatedly.

I've recently stopped using FF after being a long time user but would be surprised if FF didn't do it the same way.

Title: Re: How to add "Find" (Ctrl+F) to the context menu?
Post by: Salmon Trout on October 18, 2017, 11:54:16 AM

In Firefox 56.0.1 (64 bit) I can highlight any text and hit CTRL-F and the search bar opens with that text inserted.

Title: Re: How to add "Find" (Ctrl+F) to the context menu?
Post by: soybean on October 27, 2017, 01:56:46 PM

When you say "search", do you mean searching the internet, the web page you're viewing, or what?