Reviews & Comments of find+ | Regex Find-in-Page Tool chrome extension

it hide when you scroll

Very useful extension for finding stuff that can't be found with just a simple search (like finding low prices on retail sites). One thing that could be improved is that when searching, it scrolls the display to show the search result at the top of the screen. Often, webpages have a fixed headers that cover the search result; so I need to scroll up a few lines to see it. Would have preferred to have the search result show up in the center of the screen.

I don't know why, when I ctrl+shift+f it to search some name in opengrok to check the code, it searched slowly, and if I ctrl_shift+f again, there is possible to crash the whole chrome browser.

Doesn't work. Every time I entered text in the box, it wouldn't react or find anything.

Nice, but I need it to be able to exclude certain phrases.

works, great

It's great for marking and grading papers :))

EDIT: One annoying thing that happens is you have to open the extension and then close it and then open it again for it to work. EDIT 2: The issue above has been fixed. 5 stars. This extension works perfectly and is just great. The customization is great. The documentation is great. The key bindings are great. Everything just works. I'm using this on Microsoft Edge and it works just as well as on Google Chrome. No other extension that I've tried can compare.

Great. Plus omnibox support. Sourcecode maintained.

Does not search in inputs and textarea

Good, but how to search within PDF?

works great. but it doesn't support iframe, wish it can support search in iframes

Great extension. The extension lets me access it through the keyboard shortcut. Seems to work on pages I access.

Thanks so much for writing this! There's a bug in Chrome browser in which the CTRL+F command reports finding text but will neither highlight it nor show it. It's allegedly been fixed but not in my Chrome browser -- I use Linux so that may have something to do with it. Anyway, your app solves that problem! Great job!

Does not do anything...

Exactly what I needed. Was looking for a way to find '3-digit' numbers on websites. I tried Number Search initially, but it wouldn't do anything when I clicked on it. The guy who made the program seems very sincere in his response to user feedback, so think one of Chrome's update may have caused issues. Regardless, that made me discover "Find+" extension for Chrome. It took me a bit to figure out how to use the program to find digits, for instance I wanted to find all $ mentions between 100 and 999. The method was as follow: The program can be easily opened by pressing Ctrl + Shift + F, as opposed to the normal Ctrl + F, still available. Make sure "Find my Regular Expression" and "Match Case" is enabled in the Find+ settings. Then search for $\d\d\d which will return any 3 digit (100-999) with $ in front. The reason for stipulating the dollar is cause there is often lots of other 3 digit strings such as time and dates and just stuff you don't want. So this worked for me. Also, let's say I want to find any mention of '2 days', '3 days', etc. the search string was for instance: .2 d or .3 d This returned any string that followed the period. The general rules for how to use these strings can be found here: Syntax for Regular Expressions https://support.google.com/a/answer/1371415?hl=en Happy Brandon took the initiative to create this software! Thanks buddy ;)

absolutely terrible, if I write "find" in the address bar in chrome, because I wanted to google something with the word find in it, then it activates the extension and won't let me do the search.

I use this extension for searching scientific papers for keywords. One bug I've encountered is that the saved searches do not function at all when you first open it on a new webpage. It needs to be closed and reopened again to function in this way. Otherwise very useful.

Don't know why I waited so long to start looking for a replacement for Chrome find in page that is definitely lacking functionalities... I find it awesome so far.

it doesn't support utf-8 characters. for example \w+ does not find any non-english characters. Ex: سلام is a Persian/Arabic word. if possible please add more feathers at least \p{xx} option, so we can use \p{L} instead of \w . also \p{L} will find all utf-8 characters. also for Chinese and other non-English languages it it an essential feature. you can see more details about \p feature in this link: http://www.pcre.org/pcre.txt

This regex extension works quite nicely, and I would recommend this one over any others that have tried.

Works great; better than other regex tools in 2019/2020. It's more accurate or closer to PCRE, sublime text. The only issue I have is having to retype the regex 2-3x for it to work if you click on the page, or the tool closes. Very annoying. What I normally do is hit the hotkey (ctrl shift F) twice, and my regex is still there; now I hit backspace and remove the last character, and re-insert it. Then it works. TDLR: the program is buggy and only works the first try.

Works as expected, I can REGEX search which is exactly what I needed. Thank you!

Seems to have performance issues in larger pages. But TBH, I want to most use it in pages with a lot of content, such as log files etc., so is really of limited use to me. Seems to work decently when the page content is smaller.

Not that happy with this on Chrome (84.0.4147.125, 64-bit) on Windows 10 (OS 1803, Build 17134.1246). I find it only allows me to search the first frame of text. I can't search the text within an edit box when I edit a Wiki page, for example. I can search all the edit page's top-layer text, but the contents of the edit box are not searchable. Also in chrome when you click view source, even that text is not searchable, I suppose because it's not a regular webpage? I truly love the search and replace feature though! I've just had a lot of fun "editing" a wiki page to funny spelling errors using regex swaps. It would be Amazing(!) if you could add (capt)uring groups so that we could \1ure the structure of our "find" match and then replace it with something dependent on that captured group (e.g. replace all "(\w+)uring" matches with "(\1)ure"). Thanks for the hard work. It's a wonderful extension regardless of some of the limitations (which some I see you explain are due to iframes and single-source policy).

Has some issues: 1. Can't auto-show options, especially when choosing to hide the options button. 2. Doesn't have "exact word" 3. Wish it had a floating window that auto-positions itself (and prefer being in the center-top/bottom) so that it won't cover the results. 4. Why does it run in the background?

Nice UI, but too slow

Awesome tool! Very useful and powerful.

Nice integration with the address bar ("Omnibar"), but doesn't work with dynamic HTML pages.

searches ok but on page refresh the expression is lost, i cannot believe a developer wold do such a mistake.

I like this extension a lot, but my eyes have trouble reading the very small font I would like to see a setting where I could adjust the font size of the text being typed into the search box, maybe in a future build, eh?

Great extension, does what's written on the tin, thanks a lot! :)

He probado varias extensiones para realizar búsquedas regex esta es la que más me gusta, funciona bien, y es cómoda de usar. ¿Alguien sabe como se cofigura Chrome para que Ctrl+F abra siempre el buscador de find+? Please add an option to search nomatter of accents or explain how to do it. For example we would like to find both "último" and "ultimó" by just searching "ultimo".

Exactly what I was looking for! A quick click without having to go to menu to find on the page. Love ability to change colors on search results for page. Thanks!

works! no content script required!

Worked just fine before... but now needs to run perpetually in the background for some reason. Why does this need to be an background app?

I love this extension, but I have one issue. Is there a way for it to work in Google Sheets? Nothing in the cells gets detected by the extension.

Hey Brandon, What is the shortcut to trigger the extension's search in macOS?

This is quite a helpful, but when I'm trying to search a site for a letter followed by a number, followed by a non-number, using the regular expression M1[^\d] or M1[^0-9] it is detecting no matches, but it is finding matches if I just search for M1 or M\d - the problem is that it is matching items that also have multiple items after the M1 (e.g. M11), and in a large list, there might be over a hundred matches for that. ...aha! I found another way to do it! M1$ works, as does ^M1$! Thank you for the great product! Edit: Is there any way you can also make this work with Adobe documents loaded in Chrome? I'd LOVE to be able to search Acrobat documents with a regex!

it works

Seems to function perfectly well for searching text with regex, and is quite elegant. However, I got the extension because it claimed to be able to replace using regex as well. If it can, I cannot for the life of me figure out how. There appears to be no option for it.

Nice extension which does what it should do. Most simple, but very useful is searching for a few alternatives separated by a '|'-char.

Can't get it to work with Jupyter Notebook?

This extension works great - there's just one thing that needs to be improved. PLEASE leave the search box open and remember the spot you were at on the page! Every time you click somewhere on the page, the search box closes and when you re-open it, you have to start the search all over from the beginning!

I love the extension. Works really well! But please add an option to disable the trigger when you type "find" in the URL bar. I have this extension bound to Ctrl+Shift+F, so having it in the URL bar is just annoying to me since I often use find as a search word.

I really wanted to like this extension, but unfortunately when trying to search through a specific web page, it would just keep crashing the tab. I'm trying to search through this web page: https://pci-ids.ucw.cz/v2.2/pci.ids. I don't know if the extension just can't handle it, but it just doesn't work. It works on other web pages, just not this specific one I know of. It's weird because "Chrome Regex Search" works just fine on it. I would love to hear what you have to say and if you would be able to fix this bug. Thanks.

I've wanted to search sites using regex for so long, and this comes so close to being ideal. Unfortunately it doesn't appear to search source code, only the rendered page, 99% of the time I find myself wanting this feature, it's to search the source. Another tweak that would be nice is if the find input auto-focused from the keyboard shortcut instead of having to manually click it, like when you click the extension icon.

eazy to use

Really nice extension, kudos! Improvement suggestions: - behave like Chrome "Find in Page": when starting a search highlight the first occurrence below the current position in page (instead of scrolling to top and highlighting the very first occurrence) - when a word is selected upon pressing the shortcut, initialize find pattern with it Anyway thanks for this extension!

I still can't manage to find strings which go through multiple cells in a table. Is that supposed to be possible, and if so... how? For example on the table on the w3schools table site, I can't find a string which comes from the first column to the last column: https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp So from: Alfreds Futterkiste to: Germany I should be able to do that through the following right? Alfreds[\s\S]+Germany

This is a terrific extension. It's very useful that it can search across HTML elements. Other extensions that I found couldn't do that. Thanks for making this!

Exactly what I needed! Simple, fast, with an option to search file:// URLs. No problems with a 5922 character pipe delimited search string, it got the right results in about a second. Worked better for me than a higher rated extension so I wanted to give this one a boost!

The shortcut [ctrl+shift+f] is same to the shortcut [Search All files] in console, need customize it.

It is an excellent supplementary tool for the standard Ctrl+F. It can not replace it however, as it does have a few exceptions to acceptable search terms. *,+, and \ are not supported at all. (,),and [ are not supported individually, though using both open and close parentheses/brackets together is. Strangely the close bracket by itself is completely fine. This makes it nearly useless for any kind of scripting work/search. The specific error given is: malformed regex: the regular expression entered is not acceptable, as it is either: -an invalid regular expression, or -not supported according to the javascript regexp epression. Additionally (this was an accidental find) placing only a period in the search box results in a highlighting of everything. Finally, the highlight contrast makes any search term hard to read through it. Highlighted text turns white, which makes it difficult to distinguish from the bright yellow of the highlight color.

Support F3 for next result and Shift+F3 for previous result would me get to rate this extension with five stars.

I want to love this extension, but its startup delay is just too slow. On a page with lots of text like a forum thread or a reddit comments page, there can be a 1-3 second delay (or sometimes even more!) between pressing the hotkey and actually being able to start searching. I tried it out on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Franz_Schubert (the current longest page on wikipedia), and timed out a whopping 7.5 seconds between hitting the hotkey and having text + cursor appear in the search box. By comparison, the "Chrome Regex Search" extension is alive and kicking as soon as I hit the key, with no noticeable delay. Find+ gets some points in this comparison though: its competitor fails to find matches that cross multiple html elements, like sentences with a link in the middle, but Find+ handles those perfectly. I really do WANT to use Find+, but the painfully slow delays are just too offputting.

Beautiful regex search feature, preprogrammed to respond to ctrl+shift f as advertised =P... pdf support would be very helpful though ;) Excellent work

Is butiful

I wish this good extension made by seemingly responsible programmers had more reviews to give it a better rank. Given that code is available on github for peace of mind, it's been updated very recently, and the extension itself is performant, I am having a good experience with this. Please keep up the good work.

I tried two more popular regex search extensions before this one, and they both proved to be garbage within the first minute of use. This one is working great for me so far. Good work!

Elegant and powerful. Thank you.