How to do a quick find with forward slash in Chrome?

"Try checking out Vimium, an extension which gives you Vim keymappings. This would allow you to type a '/' and then you start typing whatever you're looking for and it dynamically jumps you to the part of the page that matches.

You may just find that the rest of the Vim keybindings are helpful too - for scrolling, navigating tabs, opening new links, etc., all without taking your hands off the keyboard - but you could simply start with the search feature and safely ignore the rest of the functionality if you're not familiar with the other bindings."

"In current versions of chrome you can do:

Ctrl + F, <search query>, Ctrl + Enter

Which is a bit more convenient compared to using ESC."

"There is a problem with the AutoHotKey script that makes it unusable -- I don't think there's a way to get the desired behavior using AutoHotKey:

1) You can't search for text containing ""/"". This can be fixed by checking if the find textbox has focus:

#IfWinActive, ahk_class Chrome_WindowImpl_0
/::
ControlGetFocus focussed, A
if ( focussed != ""ViewsTextfieldEdit1"" )
Send ^f
else
Send /
return

You'd have to do the same thing to allow entering ""/"" in the URL bar.

2) You can't type ""/"" in any web page's input box displayed by Chrome! Textboxes, search boxes, drop downs, etc... I don't know a way around this. The problem is that all these form controls don't seem to be visible to AutoHotKey (try mousing over them with Window Spy and you'll notice the control under ""Now Under Mouse Cursor"" doesn't change)."
"There is a problem with the AutoHotKey script that makes it unusable -- I don't think there's a way to get the desired behavior using AutoHotKey:

1) You can't search for text containing ""/"". This can be fixed by checking if the find textbox has focus:

#IfWinActive, ahk_class Chrome_WindowImpl_0
/::
ControlGetFocus focussed, A
if ( focussed != ""ViewsTextfieldEdit1"" )
Send ^f
else
Send /
return

You'd have to do the same thing to allow entering ""/"" in the URL bar.

2) You can't type ""/"" in any web page's input box displayed by Chrome! Textboxes, search boxes, drop downs, etc... I don't know a way around this. The problem is that all these form controls don't seem to be visible to AutoHotKey (try mousing over them with Window Spy and you'll notice the control under ""Now Under Mouse Cursor"" doesn't change)."

"The problem is not only the usage of / itself.

I often use / to go to a link and then hit enter to open it, without the use of mouse.

It's very practical, even more so when I'm already typing, both hands are on keyboard and it's just a hassle to switch to mouse.

That's why keymapping wont solve it for me."

Update: The Chromium Find As You Type Extension comes with the '/' key search functioning out of the box. Just install the extension, and forward-slash search should start working.