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> Text fragments are currently supported in all the browsers.

All meaning all the browsers listed in the linked table. These may be the major browsers, but not all of them.

Brave has this feature disable due to (rather minor, imho) privacy concerns.

https://github.com/WICG/scroll-to-text-fragment/issues/76

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/17994

That is an interesting issue (detect differing resource loading based on the document jump) that affects regular fragments as well, but the idea is that particularly sensitive pages would know not to have fragment targets in the page but couldn't prevent text fragments. The solution given (deterministic loading independent of jump target) seems like a good idea to work towards but meanwhile I agree it is a minor concern and pages should not avoid reasonable navigation due to this issue. Particularly since there are often other ways of getting the same information with the same type of network analysis.

By market share, that table contains all the major browsers and more.

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