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Slightly OT: does anyone know why the chrome developers absolutely, positively refuse to implement Find As You Type?

  http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=150#c191

(This isn't guerilla lobbying; I'm genuinely curious as to why they would resist including a feature I find so useful. And anyway, the third-party type-ahead-find extension is working adequately for me, so far...)

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Response #4 answered your question (http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=150#c4), and I agree.

That response misses the key advantage of Type-Ahead Find (which I guess I didn't make clear in my question) that pressing tab moves the focus to the next link in the text flow, and pressing Enter (Ctrl-Enter) opens the link (in a new window with Ctrl-Enter.) It's a much faster way to browse, because it completely eliminates mousing.

You may not like or agree with the explanation, but it is there.

Yes, your initial response made that clear. Hopefully my response to you made it clear that I don't buy it, because it ignores the main reason why the feature is so attractive.

It's actually not clear, because the phrase "buy it" is ambiguous in this context. It could mean,

1: You don't agree with their reason, or

2: You don't believe that is the real reason.

Both.

You may want to check out Vimium if you haven't already.

OOT: It's a long-standing design decision (I've seen it described as such; don't currently have the link) not to implement MRU (most recently used) order for Ctrl-Tab switching.

In other browsers, I used that all the time. When looking for a solution for Chrome, I found many other people miss it, as well. As of v5 or v6, IIRC, default key bindings cannot be overridden (for security), so an extension cannot solve this.

Just mentioning again, in case any Chrome developers are passing by and have just had a big jolt of caffeine, making them temporarily more agreeable. ;-)

EDIT: To clarify, I think it would make a good -- even if they are rare in Chrome -- selectable option; keep the default as it is.

Ctrl+F is that hard to press?

Not the point at all. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2304605

I see.

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