RESOLVED FIXED 21592
FKA: Find in page does not set focus to found link after closing the find box. 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21592
Summary FKA: Find in page does not set focus to found link after closing the find box.
Doug Harris
Reported 2008-10-14 11:45:17 PDT
To recreate: 1. Go to google.com 2. Press Ctrl+F and type in "about" 3. Press escape to close the find in page bar The searched text is highlighted, but I expect that if I hit the enter key I would follow the link. I have the "Press Tab to highlight each item on a web page", but that always starts with the first link on the page -- not from where I've recently searched. One goal, probably the primary goal, of adding this is to be able to navigate without using a mouse. For example, if I'm on a retail store's site (e.g. walmart.com or target.com), I know that somewhere on the page there will be a link for "store finder" or "store locator". On such sites, I search for "store", hit cmd+g (next match) if necessary to find the right link, then hit enter to follow the link. This is faster than visually scanning the whole page for the text and using the mouse.
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Doug Harris
Comment 1 2009-02-11 10:32:16 PST
This is similar to issue #455 for the Chromium project (Google Chrome browser) http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=455&can=1
mjumbewu
Comment 2 2010-04-04 13:56:10 PDT
It's also similar to bug 598291 in Epiphany (the GNOME web browser, using a Webkit backend). https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598291
James Craig
Comment 3 2013-09-30 11:42:21 PDT
Related to bug 116046
Yang Ruflo
Comment 4 2021-03-09 17:54:15 PST
I haven't found newer bugs similar to this one. This was pretty common before. Yang https://www.electricianhamiltonnz.kiwi/
Doug Harris
Comment 5 2021-03-10 10:36:59 PST
It's been 12 years since I opened this ticket(!) Some time in the past 12 years, this was fixed
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