Is it possible in some web browser / all web browsers to navigate to a URL and find the first occurrence of text on the corresponding web page with a single string input to the address bar? Essentially I want to omit the intervening "ctrl+F" and instead just append the text to search to the URL right in the address bar, presumably following some tag that signals a find text within webpage query. Ideally I could use this to add web page links to documents that take the user straight to the relevant view, instead of to what might be a very long page containing a sentence or paragraph of interest that the user will have to scroll or navigate to.
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I'm not finding (or know of) anything that does exactly what you're asking for. This sounds like plugin or scripting territory (e.g. something like this, but I cannot vouch for this program specifically), and you're asking for a native browser view. There's also the issue of which occurrence of the search text you want the page to display (first match, third match, n-th match).
If you just want to get to a certain section of a webpage, you'll notice you can specify the header with #SectionName as in the following link: where the "#Firefox" specifies to go straight to the "Firefox" header/section of the same page ().
