Chrome 84 Inspect element, find results not highlighted in yellow like before

Yes, In recent updates of Chrome 84, Find feature is buggy. 3 issues have been reported and those are in unconfirmed status as of now (while writing this answer). You can follow them on below links for more details –

  1. An element in the elements tab is not highlighted if it is only one in the DOM

  2. “Find” feature not working on “Elements” tab

  3. Finding element/xpath wont direct to the object


Update

Elements search does not resolveNode (highlight text, etc) on first search result

Has been fixed and it is part of Version 84.0.4147.105 (Official Build) (64-bit). You just need to update and relaunch the chrome. The issues mentioned above are marked as duplicate to this issue.

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