Windows 10: Microsoft plans to make Chromium’s text finder feature more useful

All Chromium-based web browsers have a powerful feature that allows you to find a specific phrase or words on a webpage. This feature is useful if you have to find a specific text on a lengthy web and while it works as intended, there’s always room for improvement.

It appears that an improved version of find box may land soon when a commit from Microsoft is merged into Chromium.

At the moment, when you select a text on a webpage and launch Chromium’s find feature (Ctrl + F), the selected text doesn’t show up in the find textbox as the find box maintains its own history.

Spotted by us, Microsoft recently applied for a new Chromium change that aims to prepopulate find with selection.

In a commit post, Microsoft explains that the find box maintains its own history and it doesn’t launch with the term that a user has selected when opening the find box, but this behaviour may change in near future.

“Currently, the find box only considers its own history when opening, but sometimes the user has selected a term on the page and wishes to search for additional instances (especially when looking at source code), Microsoft explains

“To expedite this (and prevent needing to use the clipboard), this change considers the active text selection (if any) when the find widget is invoked,” the commit reads.

As per another commit, Microsoft is adding a feature that would allow users to use Escape key to close Find dialog when the find box is not the focus.

“As an extension of the work to prepopulate Find with selection, it was determined that being able to close the find widget without having to put keyboard focus back into it (via Ctrl+F) helped eliminate another keystroke,” the commit reads.

At the moment, the aforementioned improvements aren’t available in Canary versions of Chrome and Edge.

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