Thursday 28 July 2011

Bookmarking locations within a web page in Firefox

Sometimes it's handy to bookmark or send someone a precise location within a webpage.  There doesn't appear to be any standard functionality to do this in Firefox.

Of course you could look at the HTML code, find the anchor and concatenate that to the page URL, but that's a bit tedious.

Enter Show Anchors add-on.  Install this and then right-click on the desired page and select 'Show Anchors'.  A little anchor symbol now appears next to each anchor on the page.  Hover over the desired anchor and select 'Bookmark anchor' or 'Send anchor'.

Update Jan 2014: Show Anchors not supported on newer versions of Firefox.  Try Show Anchors 2 instead.

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