Text Find+

Find text on any page with simple word searches or regex. Runs only when you click it, with no access to your other sites.

Text Find+ finds text on the page you're looking at, with simple word searches or, when you want one, a real regular expression. It asks Chrome for the fewest possible permissions and runs only when you click it. WHAT IT DOES Click the toolbar icon (or press the shortcut) and type in any of these boxes: • Any of these words: highlights each of the words wherever it appears. • All of these words: highlights the words only if the page contains every one of them. Tick "in this order" to find them in the order you typed them, with any text in between. • Regex (advanced): a JavaScript regular expression. While this box has text, the Any and All boxes are greyed out and ignored; empty it to bring them back. Two options apply to every box: Match case (capitals must match, so Apple won't find apple) and Whole words (full words only, so cat won't find category). Both are off by default. Matches light up in yellow and the current match in orange, and the count shows "3 of 27". Use Enter and Shift+Enter (or the ↑ and ↓ buttons) to move between matches; they wrap around at the ends. Clear empties the boxes and removes every highlight. However you close the popup (Close, Esc, or clicking the page), the highlights disappear. If you reopen it on the same page, your last search comes back. The ▲ button collapses the popup to just its top bar, so it covers less of the page while ↑, ↓, Clear and Close keep working. The theme button switches the popup between Automatic (follows Chrome's light or dark setting), Light and Dark. The suggested shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+F (Control+Shift+F on a Mac). Chrome only assigns it if no other extension uses it; you can set it at chrome://extensions/shortcuts. HOW TO TYPE YOUR WORDS (ANY AND ALL BOXES) • cat, dog: separate words with a space, a comma or |. Finds cat and dog. • "ice cream": quotes keep words together as one phrase. Finds ice cream, not ice or cream alone. • walk*: * stands for any letters in a word. Finds walks, walked and walking. Every other character is matched literally, so C++, $10 and notes.txt find exactly that text. Whole words and * understand letters in any language. HELP WITH REGEX A cheat sheet that opens beside the popup, ready-made examples (prices, phone numbers, dates, email addresses and more), plain-language error messages and one-click "Try …" fixes help if you're new to regex. LIVE UPDATES While the popup is open, the results follow the page: when the page adds, removes, edits, shows or hides text, the count and highlights update within about a second. The current match stays the same match while its text is still there, and the page never scrolls by itself. WEB COMPONENTS Text inside open web components (shadow DOM) is searched like any other text, in the order the page shows it. Closed web components, and any page text placed inside them, aren't searched. FINDS AND HIGHLIGHTS ONLY Text Find+ only finds and highlights text. It never changes, adds to, removes from or replaces anything on a page. There is no find-and-replace. PERMISSIONS Text Find+ asks for two permissions, and Chrome shows no permission warning when you install it: • activeTab: lets it access the tab you're looking at, only after you click its icon or press its shortcut on that tab. The access ends when you navigate the tab to a different page or close it. • scripting: lets the popup inject the search script and the highlight colours into that tab. There are no host permissions, no content scripts, no storage permission and no background worker. Other tabs and other sites are never accessible. PRIVACY Text Find+ collects nothing and sends nothing. The only things it stores are your theme choice, and only when it is Light or Dark (Automatic stores nothing), and whether you left the regex cheat sheet open, and only when you did (a closed one stores nothing). Both are kept on your device, in the popup's own local storage, and need no permission. It makes no network requests, uses no analytics and loads no remote code. It runs only on the tab where you open it, and only after you click its icon or press its shortcut. Your search text is used only to find matches on that page. While highlights are shown, the page's own scripts can see which text is highlighted, and so could work out what you searched for on that page. So that reopening the popup can restore your last search, the search is kept in that open page's memory. It is never written to disk and is gone as soon as the page reloads, navigates or closes. GOOD TO KNOW • Chrome's own pages (chrome://), the Chrome Web Store and other extensions' pages can't be searched; Chrome doesn't allow it. • Frames from the same site as the page are searched; frames from other sites are skipped. • Text in images, canvas, PDFs and form fields isn't searched. • A badly written regex, such as (a+)+$, can freeze the tab. Requires Chrome 123 or newer. OPEN SOURCE Text Find+ is free software under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later (GPL-3.0-or-later). The code is small, plain and unminified JavaScript, so you can read exactly what runs: https://github.com/MusKaya/text-find-plus