Find & Replace for Text Editing

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

The Find & Replace for Text Editing extension enables seamless searching and replacing of text within any editable input area in Firefox. Perfect for crafting lengthy emails, blog posts, or forum comments, this tool highlights occurrences of your search term in real-time.

Key Features:

Save to Favourites: Keep frequently used terms handy.
Search History: Quickly access recent searches.
Text Templates: Use pre-defined snippets to streamline your writing.
Regular Expressions: Execute advanced search patterns with ease.
Highlighting: Instantly see matches as you type.

Customizable Search:

Choose from various options:

Case-sensitive searches
Whole word matching
Text selection limits
Support for single-line input searches.

Quick Access:

Easily activate the tool with a keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+F (Mac: Cmd+Shift+F) to boost your productivity while editing text.

Download

By:: Blake Altice
Daily users:: 2,888+ 19
Rating:: 3.72

(64)
Version:: 1.3.18resigned1 (Last updated: 2024-04-25)
Version code:: 5728933
Creation date:: 2017-10-20
Risk:: Very low risk impact Moderate risk likelihood
Permissions:: activeTab
contextMenus
storage
Size:: 982.26K
URLs:: Website
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Firefox Browser Add-ons
Updated:: a day ago

Ranking

# 1,664 ▲ 12

Other rankings

#93 in Feeds, News & Blogging ▲ 3

#199 in Search Tools ▲ 3

#2 in video editing keyword 21

#3 in replace keyword 21

#14 in text editor keyword 19

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User reviews

Pros

Works on basic HTML forms and complex structures like frames and iframes
Has regex support for advanced text editing
Generally easy to use for massive editing tasks
Provides useful functionality for editing text in various contexts

Cons

Does not consistently replace text as expected
Mangles the styling of text input boxes on some websites
Some features are broken, causing frustration for users
Right-click menu option cannot be removed, leading to annoyance for some users

Most mentioned

The add-on works well in a variety of environments
Issues with finding and replacing text consistently
Problems with the add-on added styling issues
Users experienced loss of work due to incorrect replacements

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User reviews

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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Find & Replace for Text Editing does not require any sensitive permissions.

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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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High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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