Adds search & replace tool for input fields and editable text content. It includes search history, favourites, templates, highlighting, and advanced regex patterns.
Use it when composing long emails, blog articles, or forum posts.
Find & Replace for Text Editing - Efficient Add-on for Firefox
The Firefox add-on, 'Find & Replace for Text Editing,' enhances your browser experience by allowing you to search and replace text in any editable field. This tool is especially useful when composing lengthy emails, blog articles, or forum posts. Additional features include saving to favourites, search history, text templates for quick pasting into a page, regular expression info previews, and occurrence highlighting. Search options also allow for a case-sensitive search, filtering for whole words and regular expressions, limiting your search to a particular text selection, and including single-line inputs in your search.
Add-on stats
Weekly download count: 47
Firefox on Android: Yes
Risk impact: Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
Size: 982.26K
URLs: Website
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Add-on summary
Find & Replace for Text Editing is an extension that allows you to search and replace text in input areas, directly in your browser. It works for any editable text, and automatically highlights all found occurrences as you type in your search term. Use it for composing long emails, blog articles, or forum posts.
Extra Features:
- Save to Favourites
- History
- Text Templates (click to paste into page)
- Regular expression info previews
- Occurrence highlighting
Search Options:
- Match Case (case-sensitive search)
- Whole Words
- Regular Expressions
- Limit search to text selection
- Include single-line inputs in search
User reviews
Pros
- Works well for basic HTML forms and text editing.
- Has regex capabilities for advanced text searching and replacing.
- Useful for editing large chunks of text on the web.
Cons
- Does not work on certain platforms, such as Google Ads and other websites.
- Can cause styling issues with text input boxes.
- Sometimes replaces entire paragraphs instead of individual characters.
Most mentioned
- Fails to find or replace text on some pages.
- Broken functionality leading to loss of work.
- Adds unwanted right-click menu options that cannot be removed.
User reviews
It works on basic HTML forms, but whatever Google Ads uses for its negative keyword inputs, it didn't work for that.
Amazing extension! It was the only one that could find text on Pages with frames, iframes and other complex structures (following the instructions in the extension, it just needs a click on the area/field where it's supposed to perform the search to work).
Unfortunately it does not work. It finds all instances of a word in a form, but does not replace them.
Add-on safety
Risk impact
Find & Replace for Text Editing does not require any sensitive permissions.
Risk likelihood
Find & Replace for Text Editing is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.
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