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[Neopolitan]

Since Chrome 90, there has been a feature which allows users to highlight some text on a given webpage and create a link which, when visited, highlights the text again. The link is appended with #:~:text= with the text to be highlighted being URL encoded and put after. A simple but incredibly useful feature I recon Firefox could benefit from.

[jackofallsnax]

It is a very nice feature in Chrome because it prevents a barrier that a screenshot causes - the screenshot can't be scrolled or resized like a webpage and doesn't link to the original URL. So if we pretended the internet was a town, and I wanted to tell you about an ice cream parlor, while Firefox can only share the town name or a photo of the ice cream parlor, Chrome can give an exact address for the ice cream parlor that you want to share with others. Just a bad analogy I thought of.

[Readto]

This should be implemented as soon as possible

[OutlawHusbando]

From user standpoint, this is useful to share a link that jump to exact part of the page without using anchor. From dev standpoint, this feature isn't hard to implement, Google even open-source their code.

[Kotlin]

According to web.dev, this has been implemented in firefox since release 131 (see how this link highlights the text "131" when opened in firefox)

All thats missing, I think, is the ability to create such links, which should be a relatively simple endeavour from what I understand.

[Spitfire1900_C]

Firefox now supports this, but support to create a link in the right-click menu is still missing.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/131.0/releasenotes/#:~:text=Firefox%20now%20supports%20text%20....

[Anonymous]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/link-to-text-fragment/