Chrome Regex Search

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

What is Chrome Regex Search?

'Chrome Regex Search' is an Chrome extension that enhances your browsing experience by providing regex search functionality. It highlights regex matches dynamically as you type on any webpage. You can easily navigate through matches using the ENTER key for next match and SHIFT+ENTER for the previous one. Additional extension options allow you to customize the highlighting and text color.

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By: rshen

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Users: 50,000+

Rating: 3.89 (177)

Version: 1.0.8 (Last updated: 2019-01-24)

Creation date: 2019-01-23

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

activeTab
storage

Size: 35.26K

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 3911 ▼ 18

Other rankings

#6646 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 30

#23 in search box keyword 14 ▼ 5

#44 in package keyword 15

#52 in google search keyword 64 ▲ 12

#53 in search keyword 36 ▲ 4

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Summary

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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

User reviews

User reviews summary

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Works in Vivaldi and other Chromium-based browsers.
Useful search functionality not native to browsers.
Has been working great for years according to a user.

Cons

Does not work on dynamically loaded content well.
Fails to work in some browsers or environments (e.g., YouTube, iframes, offline files, Github code sections).
No support for different color highlighting for different search terms.

Most mentioned

Inability to handle content in iframes and dynamically loaded content
Issues working across different browsers and operating systems like MacOS
Lack of features such as saving regex, selecting regex, and shortcut keys

Recent reviews

didn't work on tables, maybe?

monkey_sheng, 2024-04-24

Not Working with latest chrome， only show icon with 0 number。 Not show the input search box , pls fix this bug. Thanks

Raven Master, 2020-12-13

It worked, until I needed to add ":" to the search and it wouldn't work: Searching this character alone works: : But needing it as part of a search does not work: add_foreign_key\(:[a-z_]+, I can't escape it or find a way to search what I need. I switched to the "Find+" extension, which worked.