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Find Many Strings

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This extension is no longer available in the official store. Delisted on 2025-09-16.

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Status
  • Minor Policy Violation
  • Removed Long Ago
Description from extension meta

Search and highlight multiple strings in webpages

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Find Many Strings
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"Find Many Strings" lets you search and highlight multiple words in a webpage. The difference between the browser's in-built Find feature and FMS is that, for every word you search, the word is highlighted in a different color and the highlights of the old searches don't disappear.

WARNING: You need to reload all the tabs, if you want the extension to work on the tabs that were open prior to the installation of the extension.

The extension is open sourced and you can feel safe about installing it with the permissions it asks for. The permissions are needed to draw the highlighting bar in your pages.

*None of the accessed data is stored anywhere*. You can check the sources yourself, if interested at: https://github.com/curiosity/Find-Many-Strings

New feature by Varunkumar Nagarajan: Select a text and call FMS, the selected word will be autofilled in the search box, and various other bug fixes.

Feel free to email me for any questions, feedback, comments etc. on [email protected]

Latest reviews

Federico Travaglini
non funziona
Claribel Sanchez
doesnt work... Looking forward to an update.
Sulara Perera
Works well for me, Thanks for your effort, please provide a link to donate.
Wünderboy
Literally doesn't work whatsoever. Seperated using the default comma option, nothing highlights. Try changing it to something else. Copy and paste into field, nothing. Typed directly into field, nothing. Box doesn't even remember what was entered into it prior to hitting search when you opening it back up to try again. Abdullah Bagban is a plant. Not only does this extension not work, they're clearly trying to convince you that it does, which begs the question: why?
Abdullah Bagban
Awesome Perfect Time saving useful in office use I used it for searching multiple product id on webpage.
Jeremy Volland
The description is a bit misleading. This is not a search tool, it is simply a highlight tool. It provides no way focus on terms or to move from term to term. If all you want to do is highlight words on a page and aren't interested in being taken to the words, this might work for you. If you need an actual search tool. look somewhere else.
Louis Heyman
Doesn't work in input boxes
Alex Peka
Not working/Не работает
Kris Walsh
Does not search while typing.
Mon String
Exactly what I needed. No complaints as long as I can get multiple searches highlighted at the same time.
Titov Stas
non working
Richard Dunn
Works well, except for the clear all highlights feature. It hangs badly on large pages, i.e. Jenkins logs. The algorithm could do with some attention...
Gabriel Gross
Not working (Chrome 42.0.2311.90 m)
Gaston Liberman
Very buggy extension. Sometimes it works but it's not reliable and it isn't intuitive at all.
Hari prasad
Good Extension. Happy to see a icon in Tamil
Daryl Van Humbeck
Lousy UI. If I want to select multiple sets of text, GIVE ME MULTIPLE TEXT ENTRY BOXES! I had to figure out what "split the strings with:" meant, and that is a HORRIBLE thing to do to a user.
Anonymous
It is unfortunately not working anymore (Chrome 36 on OS X Mavericks)
Aravind S
It is not working. Not even highlighting text "06-16".
Anonymous
It's krap. It doesn't go tot the text that is highlighted, it doesnt even work most of the time to highlight any text on the web page. it's really a waste. Uninstalled within 5 minutes of installing.
Richard
Just what I needed for marking identifiers in online code examples.
Tomas E. Caram
Not working on latest chrome stable, nor dev, nor beta under Windows(7), Linux or Mac(Mavericks) as Feb 23th of 2014
Jeff Hanson (jhansonxi)
Useful but needs to support case-sensitive searches.
Fred Foolged
not work for me
Gary Zheng
應該不錯multi highlight
Alex Sjoman
Great implementation. A feature that would be helpful for me would be to allow the strings to be highlighted to persist. I'd like for specific strings to be highlighted automatically for any page that I'm viewing.
Augus Mend
It's ok, but it need an option to clear only 1 highlight especificaly, and a keyboard short to add and clear highlights.
Rio Wong
accept input of multiple criterion at a time using spaces as separators is needed for speeding up of searches
Marko Ilmari
Good things: Multiple strings can be shown simultaneously (+1 star), Selected text is automatically copied to "text to highlight" field (+1 star), Clearing all highlights is possible (+1 star) Things I don't like: Same colors can be seen on different strings (-0,5 stars), Colors don't seem to be choosen logically (there would be dozens of clearly different colors if selected systematically from a color map by color, greyness, whiteness, blackness, etc.) (-0,5 stars), There's no hotkey in current version (-1 star). All in all, few steps any more to be a perfect extension. :)
Peter Ølsted
Didn't let me highlight in PDF's, so its not really usefull. Also it really needs a keyboard shortcut.