Google Chrome’s clever new feature will save you a ton of time

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Google Chrome's clever new feature will save you a ton of time

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Now this is a game-changer for Google Chrome. A new extension shared in the Chrome Spider web Shop (that just got an update today, June 19) streamlines the process of sharing spider web pages.

We've all had someone send us a spider web page to read — heck, that's how a lot of work here at Tom's Guide starts — only that process often starts with scrolling and skimming and searching for the important nugget of information. Link to Text Fragment, which our friends at TechRadar blogged about, fixes that.

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Available in the Chrome Spider web Shop now for free, Link to Text Fragment is a Chrome Extension that gives y'all a new choice when you highlight a specific give-and-take. For instance, if y'all were to find the blurb recommending Dear White People in our Best Netflix Serial roundup, yous'd normally have to gyre and scroll.

How to use Link to Text Fragment

To apply Link to Text Fragments, simply select a part of that blurb, right-click and select "Copy link to selected text." So, you lot get a longer link than usual (in this case: https://www.tomsguide.com/best-picks/all-time-netflix-serial-shows#love-white-people:~:text=If%20you've%20wondered) in your clipboard, and sharing that with someone else volition bring them to the verbal indicate in the article yous're trying to direct them to.

Google's also shared a video of how it works:

Of form, Link to Text Fragment isn't perfect yet. It doesn't work with all kinds of text, as I got an alert when I tried to select a title-header department of an commodity.

As explained in a Google Programmer blog post, this tool was only made possible by 'fragment identifier' tools in the Chrome fourscore release.

To recap (and to paraphrase Carly Rae Jepsen), it lets you cut to the important role of a story. I can't wait to start using this and daze folks who don't expect information technology to happen.

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Henry is a senior editor at Tom'due south Guide covering streaming media, laptops and all things Apple, reviewing devices and services for the by six-plus years. Prior to joining Tom's Guide, he reviewed software and hardware for TechRadar Pro, and interviewed artists for Patek Philippe International Magazine. He's also covered the wild world of professional wrestling for Cageside Seats, interviewing athletes and other manufacture veterans.

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