390578 - Add support for regular expression-based hashes in urls (would not require an anchor)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 343271

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Description

[Jason Swartz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6

Currently you can specify the named anchor to display in a page with a hash mark in the url, eg "http://mozilla.org/#stuff". However, you're out of luck if the section you want to display does not have a named anchor.

It would be great if Firefox 3 could create a new standard where a regular expression can be used to specify a location to display in a url. Firefox would load the page and then scroll to the first instance of the expression in the page.

Example: find the first occurence of "J2SE" with a version number:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.6/releasenotes/#J2SE[\d]+

I'd put this in a plugin, but it really needs a major browser to make it a standard, and Firefox 3 would be a great place to launch this.

Reproducible: Always

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