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Jon_Satterley - Aug 12, 2005 - 7:56 am
Friends, as a new Mac user of only 6 weeks I have enjoyed most things about OS X, but occasionally discover things that are so frustrating that I long for my Windows days...
One of the more difficult things to get used to is the lack of a Google toolbar for Safari/Mac (yes, I have signed the petition!!). Anyway, with the support Safari currently gives Google (with the inbuilt search bar) I have one particular question:
Once you have done a search and gone through to a particular webpage how can you find (easily) the words you were originally searching for?
With Google toolbar for XP the search words appear and you can click on them to instantly locate on the webpage those said words.
Does Safari (or the Google search bar within it) have an equivalent feature (apart from a laborious Apple Key-F locator)?
One of the more difficult things to get used to is the lack of a Google toolbar for Safari/Mac (yes, I have signed the petition!!). Anyway, with the support Safari currently gives Google (with the inbuilt search bar) I have one particular question:
Once you have done a search and gone through to a particular webpage how can you find (easily) the words you were originally searching for?
With Google toolbar for XP the search words appear and you can click on them to instantly locate on the webpage those said words.
Does Safari (or the Google search bar within it) have an equivalent feature (apart from a laborious Apple Key-F locator)?
peter_ob - Aug 12, 2005 - 8:49 am
Once you get to the Google page you will find the Advanced Search & Preferences to the right of the Search button. Do your tweeking there.
Jon_Satterley - Aug 13, 2005 - 3:59 am
That's not exacrtly what I mean. I know about Advance search and preferences....it isn't akin to the helpful Windows XP feature. What I am referring to is the appearance on the Google toolbar of the words you have searched for which you can click on, creating a 'mini-search' within the webpage for those words. Does Safari offer this feature?
peter_ob - Aug 13, 2005 - 4:04 am
Not to my knowledge. To be sure I'm sending this back to the open pool for other techs to have a crack at it.
Fire - Aug 13, 2005 - 2:51 pm
Hi, Jon.
I think you're out of luck. There's not really a way to search an open web page short of using Safari's search functions. However, here are some similar features that are already available:
+ Pressing Command-F in a web page after a Google search (using the built-in search bar in Safari) will automatically put the first word of your Google search in the page search.
+ If you double click any of the other words in the Google search field to hi-light it and press Command-E, it will automatically load it into the Page Find.
+ Pressing Command-G (Find Again) will let you search the page for that word without opening the Find prompt. Or, if you want to modify the set search word(s), pressing Command-F will bring up the default search box with that word already typed in for you.
Sorry if this is still not what you wanted, but it works well for me. Hopefully Google's toolbar will eventually be supported on Mac, or Safari will support an easier way to do this for you.
I think you're out of luck. There's not really a way to search an open web page short of using Safari's search functions. However, here are some similar features that are already available:
+ Pressing Command-F in a web page after a Google search (using the built-in search bar in Safari) will automatically put the first word of your Google search in the page search.
+ If you double click any of the other words in the Google search field to hi-light it and press Command-E, it will automatically load it into the Page Find.
+ Pressing Command-G (Find Again) will let you search the page for that word without opening the Find prompt. Or, if you want to modify the set search word(s), pressing Command-F will bring up the default search box with that word already typed in for you.
Sorry if this is still not what you wanted, but it works well for me. Hopefully Google's toolbar will eventually be supported on Mac, or Safari will support an easier way to do this for you.
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