Chrome Regex Search

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

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Description from store 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'

Latest reviews

(2025-03-01) Brandon Burkett: doesnt work
(2024-09-06) Jim Lo: Apart from the ugly interface. it works perfect for me! i hope it wont be removed by chrome later
(2024-06-06) Viviano: Wonderful Extension!
(2024-04-24) monkey_sheng: didn't work on tables, maybe?
(2024-03-15) pepe pepe: Feature request: It should work on offline files when opened by the browser, as chrome search does.
(2024-02-25) Mihai Vasiliu: Seems to be working great in Vivaldi. Thanks!
(2024-02-25) Paul B.: Great job. I didn't know this existed until yesterday. One suggestion: An option to show the search field at the bottom of the page. It's much less cluttered down there and easier to read. Thanks.
(2024-01-11) Ed Whitehoof: This is better than nothing!
(2023-12-11) 이상인: Doesn't work in Youtube.
(2023-10-26) Michael Lawler: 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.
(2023-10-26) Michael Lawler: 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.
(2023-10-20) Hiroki: doesn't work when I use ' | ' .
(2023-10-20) Hiroki: doesn't work when I use ' | ' .
(2023-10-16) Andrew Davis: Not bad, but the interface looks strange -- the icons are hard to discern because the line art is so "thick"
(2023-10-16) Andrew Davis: Not bad, but the interface looks strange -- the icons are hard to discern because the line art is so "thick"
(2023-09-17) kirbyjason: 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
(2023-09-17) kirbyjason: 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
(2023-06-18) John Reid: 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.
(2023-06-18) John Reid: 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.
(2023-05-31) 82kg sun: miss iframe
(2023-05-31) 82kg sun: miss iframe
(2023-04-13) Bharath Kumar: Does not work! + I don't see any shortcut key option (or no proper documentation on where to find it). Chrome Version 112.0.5615.49 (Official Build) (64-bit)
(2023-04-13) Bharath Kumar: Does not work! + I don't see any shortcut key option (or no proper documentation on where to find it). Chrome Version 112.0.5615.49 (Official Build) (64-bit)
(2023-04-09) Чижик Пыжик: Please, add support for saving and selecting regexps.
(2023-04-09) Чижик Пыжик: Please, add support for saving and selecting regexps.
(2022-11-10) Ying Ma (Shane): cpu使用率直线飙升至100%且不退, 风扇狂转
(2022-11-08) Niu Bryan: Not work in Chrome of MacOS 13, just can't start it, no search box shows.
(2022-11-08) Niu Bryan: Not work in Chrome of MacOS 13, just can't start it, no search box shows.
(2022-09-21) Plenilune Nicholas: How to search different keywords???
(2022-09-21) Plenilune Nicholas: How to search different keywords???
(2022-08-16) Сергей Петрович: The best extension between in now. Small, fast. Лучшее расширение среди всех подобных в магазине на текущий момент. Мало весит и кушает, не тормозит.
(2022-06-11) Nimrod Weinberg: fails at basic searches even without regex
(2022-06-11) Nimrod Weinberg: fails at basic searches even without regex
(2022-06-10) 黄丁丁: <span>183</span><span>ms</span> 需要怎样搜索？ \d{3}ms \d{3}\s+ms \d{3}[\s\t]+ms 都不行，还有 input里的内容好像没法搜索。。。
(2022-04-02) Link Sun (泽): 真棒，快捷键，复制，历史记录，这都是我想要的
(2022-02-24) Alex Bush: I give it a 5 simply because it works! An invaluable tool I am surprised is not built into the browser itself.
(2022-02-24) Alex Bush: I give it a 5 simply because it works! An invaluable tool I am surprised is not built into the browser itself.
(2022-01-09) Improved Tube: hi guys & Rshen! 🏆🥇 one of the most relevant extensions! (how in the world are there only 30.000 people using such regularily?) - we (Victor) worked on a modern successor with a color markup for our own use: ------- - - - - - ------- - - - - - ------- - - - - - ------- - - - - - ------- - - - - - ------- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/regex/pmihaiejckejbpjdnildimfkpcpnohlo ------- - - - - - ------- - - - - - ------- - - - - - ------- - - - - - ------- - - - - - ------- (please test it. we can add the missing buttons/indicator anytime) - this is while we already fulfill wishes for 100000s of people since many years @ https://github.com/code4charity/ (this is not commercial. We actually have a principle of avoiding to doing what is done well/open already. Please check our repo and try to tell what either of us should do next https://github.com/victor-savinov/regex - Likely the projects should merge rather than walk alone (+the makers could team). Also, if you read this, consider upvoting my text, so some people read it at, as this extension unfortunately has no updates since years and no old review is more relevant anymore. ██╗. . . . . . . ██████╗. ██╗. . . ██╗. ███████╗ ██║. . . . . . ██╔═══██╗██║. . . ██║. ██╔════╝ ██║. . . . . . ██║. . . . ██║ ██║. . . ██║ █████╗ ██║. . . . . . ██║. . . . ██║ ╚██╗. ██╔╝██╔══╝ ███████╗╚██████╔╝. ╚████╔╝. ███████╗ ╚══════╝.╚═════╝. . . . ╚═══╝. . . ╚══════╝
(2021-12-18) 石晨希: Not working on some rendered pages, e.g. jupyter notebook (e.g. github)
(2021-12-18) 石晨希: Not working on some rendered pages, e.g. jupyter notebook (e.g. github)
(2021-12-14) Benjamin Philipp: Almost there, but not quite...! I think it works reasonably well, except when contents are loaded in dynamically. In scenarios where a lot of potential hits are loaded in via XHR (XMLHttpRequest), this extension failed to find the new matches. This basically breaks the extension for content loaded in on modern sites. Could you please update it so any actual search takes the actual state of the DOM into account? Thank you for everything so far
(2021-12-14) Benjamin Philipp: Almost there, but not quite...! I think it works reasonably well, except when contents are loaded in dynamically. In scenarios where a lot of potential hits are loaded in via XHR (XMLHttpRequest), this extension failed to find the new matches. This basically breaks the extension for content loaded in on modern sites. Could you please update it so any actual search takes the actual state of the DOM into account? Thank you for everything so far
(2021-11-14) Stepan Zubashev: It works, but I found it useless for my cases. Because it finds something only when the whole text is placed inside a one tag as is. If some of the words within the text are wrapped by an another inline tag - this extension ignores them. It means any highlights break the search.
(2021-11-14) Stepan Zubashev: It works, but I found it useless for my cases. Because it finds something only when the whole text is placed inside a one tag as is. If some of the words within the text are wrapped by an another inline tag - this extension ignores them. It means any highlights break the search.
(2021-11-13) serial: No matter what page i am in, it says: Content script was not loaded. Are you currently in the Chrome Web Store or in a chrome:// page? If you are, content scripts won't work here. If not, please wait for the page to finish loading or refresh the page.
(2021-11-13) serial: No matter what page i am in, it says: Content script was not loaded. Are you currently in the Chrome Web Store or in a chrome:// page? If you are, content scripts won't work here. If not, please wait for the page to finish loading or refresh the page.
(2021-11-11) Pavel Kuzminov: Better than standard search, sees the difference between v and w Regex functionality is great to have
(2021-11-11) Pavel Kuzminov: Better than standard search, sees the difference between v and w Regex functionality is great to have
(2021-11-06) Eduardo de Britto Castro: Missing keep regex after reloading
(2021-11-06) Eduardo de Britto Castro: Missing keep regex after reloading

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