Find and replace

Name: Find and replace
Rating: 4.25 (44 reviews)
Author: zhanghengyou

A tool that help you find and replace text.

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Find and Replace is a powerful Chrome extension that enhances your text editing workflow by allowing you to run find and replace operations automatically, manually, or in realtime. You can open the tool in a convenient popup, side panel, or directly inside the page, adapting to your working style.

This extension supports saving multiple rules organized into groups for efficient management. It offers advanced search capabilities including regular expressions, case sensitive matching, and whole word matching. Additionally, it integrates with your browser through context menu options and keyboard shortcuts, providing quick access to text find and replace operations anywhere on the web.

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Version:

3.5 Last updated: 2025-04-15

Creation date:

2023-04-25

Risk:

Permissions:

tabs
activeTab
scripting
storage
sidePanel
contextMenus

Size:

182.27K

Email:

zh*****@gmail.com

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Source:

Chrome Web Store

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 11,738 ▼ 63

Other rankings

#404 in Tools ▲ 3 #3 in replace keyword 21 #197 in rule keyword 10 ▲ 9

Other platforms

Find and replace (v3.5)

3,869+ 4.90

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User reviews

Users generally find the 'Find and replace' extension useful and effective for quick find-and-replace tasks, helping boost productivity especially in web apps without native support. However, many report significant limitations such as inability to modify core form data (changes often appear visual only), input clearing on focus loss, buggy regex support, and insufficient functionality for selective replacements or deletions. Despite these drawbacks, users praise its simplicity, multilingual support, and responsiveness of the developer in addressing bugs.

Pros

Effectively performs find and replace functions in many scenarios, especially useful on cloud apps without built-in search/replace functionality.
Simple to use with powerful features like combining multiple rules into groups to increase productivity.
Supports multiple languages and can be used across various platforms and editors.
Developer appears responsive to bug reports and actively fixes issues.
Works well in replacing display text, providing a visual preview of changes.

Cons

Does not actually replace core data in inputs or forms like Google Forms; changes revert after saving or refreshing.
Input fields are cleared when clicking outside the extension, which disrupts workflow.
Bugs with regex features such as removal of lines, spaces, and partial execution of 'run all' function.
Does not support replacing text with blanks (deletions) in certain cases.
Issues with handling multiple similar values selectively; lacks fine-grained control on which instances to replace.

Recent reviews

Does what its supposed to decently well, but the fact that it clears the inputs every time you click outside of the extension is a real bummer

Henrik Dittmar, 2025-05-05

Didn't worked.

Daniel Mendes, 2025-05-05

Finally one that works. Awesome.

*_* Corumeach, 2025-04-24

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Find and replace requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Risk likelihood

Find and replace has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.
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