GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 595347
Can't use enter to activate a link found with 'find in links'
Last modified: 2018-12-28 08:01:41 UTC
While trying to file a bug against epiphany I browsed to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?classification=Desktop, pressed ' and then typed epiphany. Although the correct link was selected, I couldn't press Enter to activate it as I could with the gecko backend.
*** Bug 596284 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Confirming, I'm seeing this too.
*** Bug 394914 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 647206 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Apparently this search-in-links actually searches everywhere.
Not sure what "find in links" would be, but you can't activate hyperlinks that are highlighted through the normal search, I guess this is what it's about.
If you read the original report, Sam actually explains that you need to press the ' (single quote) key. Try it. :) This stems from a much touted feature Firefox introduced many years ago. I think they called it type-ahead find or something like that and that it was originally an a11y feature. But it did gain some popularity among the general hacker populace since you can navigate many sites without lifting your hands off the keyboard. The way it works is that you press ', type a part of the link, use Ctrl+g if it finds the wrong one, then press enter when it got it right. You can try it in Firefox, still works there. If you can fix it, it would be sweeeeeet. :)
Yeah I did try it, and ... oh wait, the UI is slightly different from the ctrl+F one, and it actually works now. And it only searches links. So there's - ctrl+F (normal search, you have to press Escape to select the last focused link), - ' (searches links and selects them) - / (searches all the text but also selects links).