# 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.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/find-replace-for-text-editing](https://chrome-stats.com/d/find-replace-for-text-editing)

## Overview

- **ID:** `find-replace-for-text-editing`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Blake Altice
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,search-tools
- **Daily users:** 2,761
- **Weekly downloads:** 43
- **Rating:** 3.64 / 5 (66 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.3.18resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2017-10-20
- **Size:** 959 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/find-replace-for-text-editing/)
- **Website:** [https://find-and-replace-f6588.firebaseapp.com/](https://find-and-replace-f6588.firebaseapp.com/)

## Description

Find & Replace for Text Editing is a versatile Chrome extension designed to simplify text manipulation within any editable field on your browser. Whether you're drafting emails, writing blog posts, or participating in forums, this tool offers powerful search and replace capabilities directly inline.

Key features include automatic highlighting of search occurrences, comprehensive search options such as case sensitivity, whole word matching, and advanced regular expressions. Users can save frequently used searches as favorites, maintain a search history, and utilize text templates for quick insertion. The extension also supports selection-limited searches and includes handy regex previews to assist with pattern matching. Easily accessible via the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+F (Cmd+Shift+F on Mac), it streamlines your text editing tasks efficiently and effectively.

## Rankings

- #1,770 — Overall
- #89 — Feeds, News & Blogging
- #206 — Search Tools
- #1 — video editing
- #3 — replace
- #10 — ai writing

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `contextMenus`
- `storage`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

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

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## Review summary

Users praise robust regex support and the ability to edit text in frames/iframes and many standard forms, making it great for large or bulk edits. Major complaints are inconsistent behavior across specific sites/inputs, unreliable or reverting replacements, and several UI/UX shortcomings (icon/window visibility and lack of shortcuts). Overall useful but sometimes unstable depending on the page.

### Pros

- Full regex support for powerful find-and-replace operations.
- Can edit text inside complex page structures (frames/iframes and content-editable areas) when focused correctly.
- Very useful for bulk or large-scale edits (CSV-to-vertical lists, mass editing text blocks).
- Works well in many standard HTML forms and environments (several users report success in MediaWiki and regular text areas).

### Cons

- Inconsistent behavior across sites — often fails to find text or doesn’t work with certain inputs (e.g., some ad/keyword fields).
- Unreliable replace behavior reported: replacements can fail to persist, revert after clicking away, or behave incorrectly.
- UI/UX limitations: toolbar icon or window visibility issues, no persistent search/replace window, and missing shortcut keys.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/find-replace-for-text-editing)