296417 - Add: highlight this word (or this selection) on current page to context menu

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Menus, enhancement)

Description

[David]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

It would be helpful to have the ability to highlight every instance of a
selected word or phrase that occurs on the current page by right-clicking on the
word/phrase (instead of having to type/paste the word into find and then check
the highlight button). This would expedite the process of finding other
instances of the word/phrase when one instance has already been found.
Eventually, "find next occurrence" and "find previous occurrence" would be good
to have as well.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

There really is no need to add this functionality to the context menu when the
find bar does it just fine. Especially considering you can use Find as You Type
and keyboard shortcuts to reach the same effect. This is, however, something an
extension could do.