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Gotta find this highlighting app quickly ((Reopened))

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SoftwareEng

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I'm looking for an apartment on Craigslist and need to highlight the word "parking" every time I open a web page. Is there a Firefox plugin or separate app which will do this *automatically* when the page loads, without having to do Ctrl+F or something?

So basically, when a web page page loads, highlight all instances of a predefined word. Sounds simple, but google and bing failed me 🙁((

thanks!
FYI moving to Brighton or Brookline in MA =)
 
Sam25, thank you, but unfortunately it's not what I'm looking for 🙁

I can't believe no one heard of an add-on or app to do one simple thing: simplify research by highlighting pre-defined text on the page.

Daaaamn!!! Fck the Interwebs! 😉
 
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I've only been using it for the past minute or so (your post made me curious), but it seems to do what you're looking for. Type in what you want to highlight in the search bar built into firefox, and select enable highlighting in the little dropdown menu. Then it'll highlight that word in every page you open.
 
Originally posted by: vj8usa
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I've only been using it for the past minute or so (your post made me curious), but it seems to do what you're looking for. Type in what you want to highlight in the search bar built into firefox, and select enable highlighting in the little dropdown menu. Then it'll highlight that word in every page you open.
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I tried it, but how do you configure it to highlight the text automatically without keystrokes or clicks? Options are useless 😉
 
Originally posted by: SoftwareEng
Originally posted by: vj8usa
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I've only been using it for the past minute or so (your post made me curious), but it seems to do what you're looking for. Type in what you want to highlight in the search bar built into firefox, and select enable highlighting in the little dropdown menu. Then it'll highlight that word in every page you open.
Click to expand...

I tried it, but how do you configure it to highlight the text automatically without keystrokes or clicks? Options are useless 😉
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Yup, I downloaded the add-on right now and same thing really...can't figure out how to auto-highlight the text? 😕
 
If I click the option to highlight...nothing's happening. I'm definitely missing something here....
 
So, really, there's a bug in that add-in 🙁
What do I have to do to get some service around here, write my own damn software 😉

If anyone figures it out... Or finds another app... (I can even switch to Internet Explorer)... Please post!
 
in case you haven't figured it out. Install Google toolbar. Then in the search box type "parking" then on the far right there is a highlighter icon, click that. As long as that is clicked it will always highlight whatever you have in the search box.
 
Originally posted by: armstrda
in case you haven't figured it out. Install Google toolbar. Then in the search box type "parking" then on the far right there is a highlighter icon, click that. As long as that is clicked it will always highlight whatever you have in the search box.
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That's beautiful!! 🙂
Works great!

A slight overkill considering all the extra features, but what the heck, it works! Available for FireFox AND IE.

Thanks!
 
Originally posted by: ChAoTiCpInOy
Apple's Safari will highlight it when you search for it. All instances.
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I personally haven't used Safari. But I imagine it works like Firefox - you have to do a Search every time you want the text highlighted. And once you visit another page, it won't highlight automatically..
 
Google Toolbar sucks for one big reason. It regularly forgets or changes the text I wanted to highlight. Clicking a link to a Google map will do that.

Still need a tool to... oh God, simply highlight a pre-defined word on the page automatically.
 
The reason that happens is that any google "search" (clicking to google maps is considered a search) will change your search box text. you could quickly type or paste parking back into the box.
 
I just had a brainstorm. Get Greasemonkey and Platypus (both Firefox plugins.) Edit the HTML of a page so that "parking" is replaced with '<span style=" background-color: #ffff80">parking</span>', or some such. Make sure you check the option to change it in all cases on the page. Install the script, then in Greasemonkey have it work on all pages ("*"). This might break a few pages, and I'm not sure about case sensitivity, but otherwise it ought to work.
 
Originally posted by: Ken g6
I just had a brainstorm. Get Greasemonkey and Platypus (both Firefox plugins.) Edit the HTML of a page so that "parking" is replaced with '<span style=" background-color: #ffff80">parking</span>', or some such. Make sure you check the option to change it in all cases on the page. Install the script, then in Greasemonkey have it work on all pages ("*"). This might break a few pages, and I'm not sure about case sensitivity, but otherwise it ought to work.
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Wow. That's.. hot 🙂 Thanks for giving it so much thought. I'll definitely try it if there's no trivial way to do it - I'm just trying to keep my Firefox light 🙂 thanks Ken
 
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