# {find+}

> A find-in-page extension with support for regular expressions.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/brandon1024-find](https://chrome-stats.com/d/brandon1024-find)

## Overview

- **ID:** `brandon1024-find`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Brandon Richardson
- **Category:** web-development,search-tools,other
- **Daily users:** 2,237
- **Weekly downloads:** 30
- **Rating:** 4.10 / 5 (79 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.2.1
- **Last updated:** 2021-08-15
- **First published:** 2018-01-05
- **Size:** 119 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-17
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/brandon1024-find/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/brandon1024/find](https://github.com/brandon1024/find)

## Description

{find+} is a powerful Chrome extension that significantly enhances the native find-in-page feature by supporting JavaScript regular expressions. Designed primarily for developers, it enables searching web pages or documents with complex regex patterns, facilitating precise text matching beyond simple keywords.

Key features include find-and-replace functionality, the ability to copy regex matches to the clipboard, and storing frequently used expressions for quick reuse. The extension mimics the native CTRL-F tool but adds much-needed power and flexibility for examining large logs, stack traces, or structured text files. Note that {find+} is best suited for static pages and may not perform well on dynamic content or very large pages.

## Rankings

- #2,030 — Overall
- #216 — Web Development
- #239 — Search Tools
- #315 — Other extensions
- #123 — support
- #167 — legal

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `activeTab`
- `storage`
- `contextMenus`
- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users repeatedly praise regex search, usefulness for large pages, and persistent highlighting, while common criticisms focus on the find keyword hijack, UI visibility bugs, unreliable hotkeys, and occasional crashes on large sites.

### Pros

- Regex search support enabling complex in-page queries.
- Very helpful for navigating large data dumps and long pages.
- Highlights all matches and keeps highlights visible for review.
- Easy to use with a straightforward interface.

### Cons

- Hijacks the word find in the address bar with no option to disable.
- Search box or results panel disappears after certain interactions and does not stay visible across tabs.
- Hotkey usage is inconsistent with reports of confusion and not working on some systems (notably Linux).
- Crashes on some very large sites.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/brandon1024-find)