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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.

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[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/

[Ponda]

I can't believe it's still missing. All that has to be done is addition of one more entry to the right click menu, quite literally. Though base64 encoding would also be nice so that the link are properly recognized and handled by third-party software and Firefox for Android (unlike desktop Firefox, Firefox for Android can't handle URLs with spaces and switches to search instead.)

[Ponda]

Oh dear, it seems I was mistaken, it actually is quite a lot of work to implement it properly. I know it because work on it started according to Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1779688.

Could we get official confirmation this feature is indeed coming soon™?

[declan-ruediger]

Extension for in the meantime: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/link-to-text-fragment/

Firefox (without the extension) supports opening these links, but this lets you create them 👍

[endolith]

There's an add-on for this now and Firefox supports the links

[bassoonoctopus]

Even iOS Safari supports this. Please consider adding this soon.

[WinthropWumble]

The bugzilla for this lists this as done, but it's definitely not on Android. Not sure how the process works, but it doesn't seem done.

[ThiagoM]

This is working great in Firefox Desktop!

You must enable the flag:

dom.text_fragments.create_text_fragment.enabled

As the feature is still in test accordingly to the bugzilla ticket: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1779688#:~:text=This%20is%20still%20behind%20dom%2Etext...

[Readto]

We need this feature to be available to everyone without having to go to ‘About’. Most browsers have this feature

[dab123]

Yes, this is the reason I have abandoned FF and switched to Chrome.  But FF has the great feature of a drop down list of all tabs open. I prefer that. Please fix!  Thanks