Google cache quick-find

By Crosbie Smith Last update Feb 22, 2009 — Installed 697 times.


Script Summary: Quickly find search terms in a page from Google cache

In Google cache pages, this creates links from each highlighted search term to the first occurrence of that term within the page. This avoids the need to re-type the search terms in the 'Find:' box. Clicking on a highlighted occurrence will also link to the subsequent occurrence in the page.

The extension works by linking together text of the same background color. This could conceivably cause confusion on some pages, but I haven't seen it yet.

Update

(1 hour later) Just noticed, google cache does exactly the same thing. Oops! I won't delete mine yet as I have already found a case where the existing script won't work. Mine also works with PDFs.

Update: 15th November 2008


This has been broken for a while due to a change in Google's cache page formatting. A fix is coming soon!

Update: 20th February 2009

V1.1: Quick patch applied to get it working.