This seems to be a good introduction to Quick Find.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/120679-enable-disable-qu...

Ok, so the difference is:

1. It disappears after a few seconds.

2. It has no "next/previous/highlight all" etc. buttons (it still have these features, just no clickable buttons)

It still makes no sense to me.

I guess maybe a small portion of people would find the auto-disappearing thing useful, even though in normal Ctrl+F all you need to do is pressing Esc.

But the second "feature" totally baffles me. It's not like Ctrl+F is some expensive GUI to launch, why would I want to not have these buttons? Even if you don't need them at all (I don't), you can simply not click them, there is no downside by having them.

Does the usual Ctrl+F GUI support filtering down to links only?

It doesn't, but "/" does not do that either. It's "'" that works that way (and obviously useful). I just don't know about "/".

You can use the single quote character to search only links

And this has collision with my vim extension

The only difference I know of is that "/" focuses links. So when you press return, it loads the link instead of jumping to the next result.

It's quite nice for keyboard-only web navigation.

> "/" focuses links.

It's ' to trigger quick find in links only mode.

I had the same confusion with his comment but I think what he meant was that when you highlight a result in a link, pressing enter causes you to follow that link (which is true). You are correct that ' focuses on only searching within links though.

Enter never goes to the next result though, so I am not sure if that is just something different between his setup and mine. I have to use F3 to go to the next result.

When I talked about enter going to the next result I was comparing it to the Ctrl+F search bar.

Sorry if that wasn't clear. (English is not my first language)