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brian-girko / multiple-highlight

Color-coded highlighter extension to find queries
https://add0n.com/multiple-highlight.html
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Feature Request: Keep Search Popup Open Until Closed by User #6

Open jBbL81 opened 4 years ago

jBbL81 commented 4 years ago

i love this addon. only minor annoyance is when i have the popup open on a browser tab and switch to another tab, the popup is automatically closed.

or even when i don't switch to another browser tab but switch to another application (like notepad for example) and then switch back to chrome, the popup is closed.

i would like the search popup to open indefinitely until i close it.

brian-girko commented 4 years ago

Unfortunately, it is not possible. There is no API to keep the popup open.

lesca commented 4 years ago

My solution: Use SHFIT+ESC to close with highlight, and remap CTRL+F for this awesome extension.

However, I'd suggest to keep highlighting when clicking on the page. (Current behavior is the highlight disappears when the popup search box gone - by clicking on the page. To make highlight reserved, the only way is using SHIFT-ESC, it's a little bit unnecessary. )

exec228 commented 3 years ago

"remap CTRL+F for this awesome extension." I would be happy. How so?

fm-sys commented 3 years ago

"remap CTRL+F for this awesome extension." I would be happy. How so?

Go to [about:addons]() and edit the shortcut configuration. Take a look at the Firefox documentation for a detailed description...

Unfortunately, for me it was not possible to overwrite CTRL+F, but you can use Microsoft Powertoys to remap your keyboard for Firefox (although it's kind of hacky ;-)):

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exec228 commented 3 years ago

Never knew before... Thank you very much!!!