Highlighted search text in webpages

[LordOfTheWaffleHouse]

How do I turn off the highlighted text option in searched webpages? I can use the Ctrl+F feature if I need to sift through the page quickly, it's more annoying to me that part of the text is always highlighted and I can't find any setting to make it not do this.

[Pathduck]

@LordOfTheWaffleHouse Hello and Welcome to the Vivaldi Community

There is a new feature in Snapshots where you can select text to highlight when copying a link. However this feature need to be explicitly activated by the user, so not sure this is what you mean.

I suspect you mean highlights on webpages from web search engines, if so it would help with an example of such a link from a search engine.

For instance I believe Google used to do this, but I've not seen it in a long while.

Links like this?
https://vivaldi.com/#:~:text=“Our favorite web browser greatly improves surfing on larger mobile screens”

[Pesala]

@LordOfTheWaffleHouse Try pressing the Escape key to close the Find in Page toolbar.

[nomadic]

@LordOfTheWaffleHouse Google recommends using a header editing extension to disable text fragment URLs like @Pathduck posted above. (Google article)

To test, I used the simple-modify-headers extension and set up this response header (make sure to change the Apply on field to Response) for all URLs (a blank pattern is all URLs).

Document-Policy: force-load-at-top

Then I hit the Save button in the screenshot and hit the Start button in the top right corner.

Then trying out @Pathduck's link loads the Vivaldi website without any text highlighted and no automatic scrolling.

[Pathduck]

@nomadic Wouldn't that also block the page position history, i.e. when going back in history to a specific place in a longer webpage?

Actually, rereading the OP request I'm not sure what they mean, maybe like Pesala says, they just forgot to close the Search-in-page dialog

[nomadic]

@Pathduck said in Highlighted search text in webpages:

Wouldn't that also block the page position history, i.e. when going back in history to a specific place in a longer webpage?

Yeah, it does interfere with that. A tradeoff if you really want to kill text fragment URLs.

I personally love the feature and would never imagine disabling it.

Actually, rereading the OP request I'm not sure what they mean, maybe like Pesala says, they just forgot to close the Search-in-page dialog

A strong possibility. If you and I are both wrong, I blame you for setting me off down the wrong path

[Pathduck]

@nomadic said in Highlighted search text in webpages:

I personally love the feature and would never imagine disabling it.

Meh - I accept that it's there, I rarely if ever use it, and I find it messes with URLs and makes them much harder to parse visually.

I remember a couple years back when searching with Google, the top links all had those text fragment links.. But now I can't seem to get them, even when signed out, so I'm assuming G removed it from the search, or possibly only enabled for some countries(?) Anyway I'm happy about it, never did like them.

There was a flag that could be set when they (Google) introduced it in Chromium, but the flags has of course since been removed.
chrome://flags/#enable-text-fragment-anchor
I guess Chromium devs saying "We've not heard anything negative about this, they must all love it, so lets remove the flag to disable it!"

There's also a policy that can be set:
https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/?policy=ScrollToTextFragmentEnabled
Is also possible to set for Vivaldi, but unfortunately setting any policy also disables some user options (like DoH) because the browser is then "managed by your organisation".