An extension for Regex Search in lieu of Chrome's CTRL+F

Latest Version

Version
1.0.8
Update
January 23, 2019
Size
34.43KiB
Developer
Category
Users
40,000+
Rating
3.90449 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English (United States)
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Permissions
ActiveTab
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Chrome Regex Search Extension

Highlight regex matches on the web page dynamically as you type.

Cycle through matches with ENTER and SHIFT+ENTER or by clicking the arrows with your mouse.

Customize highlighting and text color through the extension options.

You will need to refresh any tabs you already have opened to load the content script.

10/27/2015: Added case insensitive search option in options page

7/13/2016: Added \"file://*/*\" extension to manifest

7/30/2016: Updated package with pull request https://github.com/rogershen/chrome-regex-search/commit/c5ab1bbc33a1ec8ddd254b640b8786cc621e6644

9/2/2016: Updated package with pull request https://github.com/rogershen/chrome-regex-search/pull/6
This update adds search history to the popup, which is shown and hidden with the rightmost button

9/23/2016: Changed case insensitive search option to a toggle on popup

1/24/2019: Updated package with two pull requests to enable copy command and auto-focus on parent element.

This extension is open source: https://github.com/rogershen/chrome-regex-search

If you have any problems please report them to https://github.com/rogershen/chrome-regex-search/issues

Keyboard Shortcuts:
ENTER: select next regex match
SHIFT+ENTER: select previous regex match

To setup a Keyboard Shortcut to open the Popup:
In your browser, go to chrome://extensions/
Find 'Chrome Regex Search' and click the box
Type your custom command (ie CTRL+SHIFT+F)
Now whenever, you want to open the popup simply enter your custom command.

Extension Options can be found by right clicking the icon and selecting 'Options' or by going to chrome://extensions/ and clicking 'Options' in the row for 'Chrome Regex Search'
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "manifest_version": 2, "name": "Chrome Regex Search", "description": "An extension for Regex Search in lieu of Chrome's CTRL+F", "version": "1.0.8", "icons": { "16": "icons/icons_16.png", "24": "icons/icons_24.png", "32": "icons/icons_32.png", "48": "icons/icons_48.png", "64": "icons/icons_64.png", "72": "icons/icons_72.png", "96": "icons/icons_96.png", "128": "icons/icons_128.png", "256": "icons/icons_256.png" }, "browser_action": { "default_icon": { "16": "icons/icons_16.png", "24": "icons/icons_24.png", "32": "icons/icons_32.png", "48": "icons/icons_48.png", "64": "icons/icons_64.png", "72": "icons/icons_72.png", "96": "icons/icons_96.png", "128": "icons/icons_128.png", "256": "icons/icons_256.png" }, "default_popup": "popup.html" }, "permissions": [ "activeTab", "storage" ], "background": { "scripts": ["js/background.js"], "persistent": true }, "content_scripts": [ { "matches": [ "http://*/*", "https://*/*", "file://*/*" ], "js": [ "js/content.js" ] } ], "commands": { "_execute_browser_action": { "suggested_key": { "windows": "Ctrl+Shift+F", "mac": "Command+Shift+F", "chromeos": "Ctrl+Shift+F", "linux": "Ctrl+Shift+F" } } }, "options_page": "options.html"}
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User reviews

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Michael Lawler (ID: 0000004825916043) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 10/26/2023 It's great, used it for years. Unfortunately, FYI, it recently stopped working on particular pages. Even non regex plain text search coming back with zero results :/ I'm using it on Brave, Edge and Chrome and confirmed the same pages don't work across browsers. One example the `code` section within https://github.com/TryTryAgain/aws-iam-actions-list/blob/master/all-actions.txt ... that used to work, they must have changed something on the github side.

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Hiroki (ID: 00000061a55e1c7f) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 10/20/2023 doesn't work when I use ' | ' .

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Andrew Davis (ID: 0000007dfcc3f5be) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 10/16/2023 Not bad, but the interface looks strange -- the icons are hard to discern because the line art is so "thick"

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kirbyjason (ID: 000000d7ecf39c34) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 09/17/2023 Finds both search terms, then makes them both the same color? This is no good to me at all without color differentiation. Search term1=color 1, Search term 2=color 2. I'm trying to separate the two terms and see where they appear close-together, and see where they occur far apart. I cannot do this when they are highlighted the same color. How can you go to all the trouble of writing this almost great plugin, and not have at least an option to show the terms as highlighted by distinct or different colors? "So close, so close and yet so far." -Frankie Vallie

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John Reid (ID: 00000080b1449131) Voted 2 ★ - Updated 06/18/2023 Works fine for some static content, not well for dynamic content. Can't make any matches that break across different tags/nodes in the DOM, so if any of your text is in a span, has any formatting at all, etc, the search fails. So, for me, totally useless, unfortunately.