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oesa on May 1, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pwning the Ladybird Browser

off topic, but I have never seen a link like yours before.

Today, I learned about Text Fragment Identifiers [0]. Thanks, very handy!

[0] https://web.dev/articles/text-fragments#text_fragments

rzzzt on May 1, 2025 [–]

Chrome and Edge have a context menu item to create a link like this when you select text ("Copy link to highlight").

Firefox 131 and up will highlight the relevant portion on the page but can't create new links in a user-friendly fashion.

TheDong on May 1, 2025 | [–]

> But [firefox] can't create new links in a user-friendly fashion.

It's not built-in, but there is https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/link-to-text-...

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