What is Chrome Regex Search?
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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
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- Works great for static content
- Useful for regex searches
- Generally effective across multiple browsers
- Poor interface design
- Does not work well with dynamic content or tables
- Lacks color differentiation for matched search terms
- Issues with functionality on particular websites (e.g., YouTube, GitHub)
- Interface looks strange or 'ugly'
- Stops working on certain pages
- Does not work with certain search patterns (e.g., '|')
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Chrome Regex Search requires very minimum permissions.
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Chrome Regex Search has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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