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Inline Search for Internet Explorer - Browser Tip
by Jason Clarke Oct 2nd 2006 at 9:06AM
Back when I first experienced in-line search in a browser, in an old version of Firefox - it may even have been Firebird back then - I wasn't sure how I liked it. It felt weird not to have a dialog box pop up. But I found that very quickly I grew to appreciate the way in which in-line search stays out of my way, and gets the job done better. Of course, since then, I've been wishing that IE could do the same thing, and yet that update just never came. When the beta versions of IE7 came out, one of the first things I looked for was smarter find functionality, in other words in-line search like how Firefox does it. It just wasn't there. Luckily, I wasn't the only one waiting for this functionality, and an Inline Search plug-in for IE was born. Even better, In-line Search works for every version of IE from 5.5 onward.
There's not much more to say about it - it's just exactly what the doctor ordered. Microsoft, please take note.
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Sean said 2:25PM on 10-02-2006
Here's another really simple way to do it if you've got the google toolbar installed... just type the word into the search box and the google toolbar automatically puts it on it (like after you do a google search). Then just click on the word and voila, you've got a better ctrl-F
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Sanjay Goel said 9:58AM on 10-03-2006
IE's search is horrible. It does not wrap, and I can't understand whether to click up or down as their is no cursor location.
Firefox is much better, it gets you the first result incrementally and then u can just press enter to see the next.
Google Toolbar has the best search. Infact this search is the reason I use the toolbar instead of just using the default google search box in firefox.
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