Yeah, I miss that feature from Firefox, too.
It is very convenient just to type...

Try this https://chrome.google.com/extensions...mghndkikcmoadk

Thank you! First XMarks, and now this... Next step, to see whether NoSquint has been ported to Chrome, and good bye Firefox.

The questioner was already aware of control+f and said so in the followup. Not everyone may "see the point of such a feature" but whether you see the point is really irrelevant.
There are many features, or feature requests, that I don't see the point of. But others do. We all work differently.

With the Firefox feature not only would one not have to Ctrl-f to search first, the search box doesn't have to be closed or left afterward to use the keyboard normally again. Arrow keys, Page Up/Down, etc., continue to work. And finally, whatever link is found in the search can immediately be followed by pressing Enter. I do hope all of this gets built into Chrome. For now I'll check out the extensions.

Originally Posted by Kyrax

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To be honest, I don't really see the point of such a feature.
For now, I guess you'll have to make do with pressing CTRL+F before you start typing.

OMG retard, stop drinking the google kool-aid one second and think about it. Everyone in the entire world would prefer doing every activity in the world in less time instead of more time. Get it?

Do you prefer carpal tunnel? Would you prefer Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Tab-Capslock-F instead of typing nothing?

Originally Posted by FFuser

OMG retard, stop drinking the google kool-aid one second and think about it. Everyone in the entire world would prefer doing every activity in the world in less time instead of more time. Get it?

Do you prefer carpal tunnel? Would you prefer Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Tab-Capslock-F instead of typing nothing?

I know this isn't really directed at me and all, but... be careful with sweeping generalizations i know there are a hell of a lot of things i would like to do more of... you really cant think of any? And for the record i don't see anything wrong with kool-aid, i happen to like a good glass of kool-aid...

@noctiphile
You really hit it on the head for me, i used the FF search a lot and miss all the functionality that you mention. Especially how it closes on its own instead of having a way to force it open like FF.

yes u can use F3

Originally Posted by Kyrax

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To be honest, I don't really see the point of such a feature.
For now, I guess you'll have to make do with pressing CTRL+F before you start typing.

To understand why this might be useful, imagine reading a site like the NY Times. You can type in a part of the link, click enter, and you're already loading the next page. It's a lot faster than clicking.

If you have sites that you visit often and there's a sequence of click you go through, you can type part of the link and the browser will automatically page there, and you can hit 'enter'. You can do this for several pages in a row, and it's a lot faster than page down, mouse to the link, click, and repeat. I have administrative pages where I do certain tasks several times a day (each task taking several pages), and this one feature saves me tons of mousing and pain.

All: I personally have serious wrist/finger problems because of this, will you help me drum up support for it?

If you want to have the feature (find as you type/FAYT) ENABLED IN CHROME BY DEFAULT, go to
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=150 and read #4 for why it's not.

Then star ( = vote for) the issue, tell everyone who wants FAYT enabled by default to star it, and install tokland's extension as an awesome workaround for the time being: https://chrome.google.com/extensions...mghndkikcmoadk

Also, please join my group on LinkedIn, start a Facebook group, tweet about it, or do something to spread the word: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3...k=myg_ugrp_ovr

(By the way, you may see me post something like this in a lot of places, I'm not a computer, I just don't want to re-word the message every time I post it.)