Can we get rid of highlights from searches?

[aysiu]

When I search for stuff and then click on the thread I've found, the URL pops up with &highlight=phrase at the end, and then the words I search for are highlighted wherever they appear in the thread.

Could we not have that be the default behavior? Usually, I'm just trying to find a thread--I don't need to highlight the search terms.

Am I the only one who feels this way?

[az]

When I search for stuff and then click on the thread I've found, the URL pops up with &highlight=phrase at the end, and then the words I search for are highlighted wherever they appear in the thread.

Could we not have that be the default behavior? Usually, I'm just trying to find a thread--I don't need to highlight the search terms.

Am I the only one who feels this way?
Sometimes I find it annoying, and sometimes it is useful - especially when the thread is really really long and I want to scroll down really fast.

I usually cut the highlight command out of the adress bar and hit enter to reload the page without highlights.

[aysiu]

Sometimes I find it annoying, and sometimes it is useful - especially when the thread is really really long and I want to scroll down really fast.

I usually cut the highlight command out of the adress bar and hit enter to reload the page without highlights. Well, usually I'm searching for stuff because I want to give a link to another thread to someone else (I'm just trying to help)--all they need is the thread, not the highlights.

The fastest way for me to "scroll down" in Firefox is to Control-F and start typing, not to look for highlighted text.

[Lord Illidan]

You could always cut the last part out of the link. Highlighting can be convenient, sometimes.

[aysiu]

You could always cut the last part out of the link. Highlighting can be convenient, sometimes. That's what I do right now, which I find annoying.

If I'm the only one, then I guess this complaint's not valid.

So everybody else digs the highlighting?

[ubuntu-geek]

Highlighting in the searchs won't be removed sorry. Its to useful..

[christhemonkey]

High lighting annoys me as well!
It just gets in the way of the other words.

[aysiu]

Highlighting in the searchs won't be removed sorry. Its to useful.. Okay. I'll just keep deleting it off the end. Thanks.

[ubuntu-geek]

Sorry guys.. if there is a way it can be turned on a per user level then i am all for it.. but i havent seen such a plugin yet.

[Mustard]

Okay. I'll just keep deleting it off the end. Thanks.

That's basically what I have been doing myself, at least when I remember to do it. :)