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by robbrown451 2307 days ago
You can paste something like this into your javascript console:

setInterval(function() { window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight); }, 2000);

That will scroll continuously, so you can let it run for a while and then do ctrl-F. It might take a while but you can do something else. I've used it successfully many times (usually when I wanted to scrape the DOM for some reason or another, rather than just do a search).

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I've tried this twice in the last year or so: once on twitter and once on dropbox. Neither time did it work. It _seemed_ that ctrl+f would not find anything that was not visible +/- a screen height or two. I couldn't tell if it was a shortcoming of Firefox (unlikely IMO) or both sites tried to be clever about dynamically unloading content when it was outside the view window (more likely).
Seems to be a Firefox thing. Works fine on Chromium browsers, only finds stuff near the top in Firefox.
Or just put something heavy on your keyboard's "End" key :)
Ha yeah that works, if you don't want to do anything else on your computer for a while as it does its thing....