Yellow Highlighting on some webpages after Bing search in Edge/Chrome


  1. cknoettg
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    Yellow Highlighting on some webpages after Bing search in Edge/Chrome


    This popped up a few days ago, and I'm not sure if it was due to a Windows reinstall, a Windows Update, or something else.
    Windows 10 2004.
    I don't really care if the feature stays or not, I just wanted to see if anyone could replicate the issue.

    If I do a Bing search for sample term "SPDIF speakers" on new Edge or Chrome, some pages will all of a sudden have highlighted text (screenshot attached).
    Yellow Highlighting on some webpages after Bing search in Edge/Chrome-yellow_highlighting.png
    Doesn't happen in Firefox or on search engines other than Bing.

    I don't know why some terms trigger it, and why it appears on some webpages, but not others.

    Sample website was:
    External speakers for SPDIF TV? | Tom's Guide Forum
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  3. Berton
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    It's interesting, putting that link in Firefox URL box gets the page without the highlighting but putting it in the Edge URL box does. Must be something about Edge not liking part of the coding on it. Don't know if the year and a half age of it is part of the issue, usually isn't.
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  4. Farvatten
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    Windows 10 Pro 64bit 22H2 19045.3324
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    cknoettg said:
    I don't know why some terms trigger it, and why it appears on some webpages, but not others

    It sounds like this new Google feature only seen on chrome based browsers and apparently difficult to turn off.

    Google now highlights search results directly on webpages

    Is there away to stop google from highlighting (yellow) text in my search results?

    "The "Scroll-to-text-fragment" action is specified by the site's webmaster using a special parameter in the webpage URL, and implemented by browsers supporting this feature. As such, this is a browser issue, and any way of controlling it would need to be provided in browser settings. It's my understanding that Chrome is currently the only major browser supporting the "Scroll-to-text-fragment" feature."
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  6. zebal
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    Set registry value: (note: if key location doesn't exist create it)

    Code:
    Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge
DWORD: ScrollToTextFragmentEnabled
Value: 0
    Update GPO (run in cmd or PS)
    Code:
    gpupdate /force
    Restart MSEdge or CTRL + F5 on site.

    I really hated this "feature" and now it's gone.
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