Reviews for Regex Search
Regex Search by Mohd_PH
64 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mehmet Atif Ergun, 7 years agoWorks as described; ability to save and edit profiles is great.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Peter Lyons Kehl, 7 years agoHandy add-on. It increased my productivity.
Thanks to Mohd (the developer). He responds to issues/suggestions (on GitHub page), too. - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 7046564, 7 years agoThe add-on doesn't fully work, and for as far as it does, is not very practical.
- I type in a regex and do 'search' but it doesn't always show the results it should. Oftenly it shows nothing in the result box, sometimes just one result where there are many more.
- The highlight function does find all matches. However, it would be nice if the page could jump to the first/next result, but that's probably what the search button is supposed to do.
- When using the highlight function without the 'global' flag, a result is that is not the first one may be highlighted, rather a random(?) one.
- It seems that this addon looks for matches in the html source code rather than the actual page. Therefore it also seems to match classnames, image paths etc. This is not great and the highlight function therefore has matches that can't be seen on the page!
It's a nice add-on, but could use some improvement! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14008900, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Slaven, 7 years agoGreat! It does just what I need. By pressing Highlight button, extension highlights regex matches and you can save regex for later use.
- Rated 3 out of 5by flash, 7 years agoI like the recent Highlight feature that's been available since version 1.0.4 (for some reason only available as a download from the author's GitHub page), but it has one side-effect that has a massive potential of breaking websites. The highlight is not only applied to visible text within tags, but to the whole page ( document.body.innerHTML ). This can break inline JavaScript, link references and all kinds of other things as well if a match is found, which sadly makes it unusable as the multi-word highlighter that I've been looking for.
For other use cases, such as extracting data from the page source, it's a neat extension but I have no such requirements myself.Developer response
posted 7 years agoFixed the issue in the latest release 1.0.6 , thanks for reviewing - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13664076, 7 years agoThere are newer version of extension in the Github. Please deploy the latest version in the Firefox repository.
- Rated 2 out of 5by MikZ, 7 years agoThis extension desperately needs use instructions. I haven't worked out how to get it to highlight text in a webpage that matches a regular expression, which is what I want, and what I thought the description said it would do.
There's no 'use RegEx' option when I type Ctrl+F, and when I click 'Preferences' on this extension, there are no options, and nothing that says what to type to make it work. I did eventually notice the 'Regex Search' button in the toolbar, but clicking that opened a confusing dialogue box, and when I typed a very simple JavaScript-style regex, it didn't seem to find anything on the page I'm on.
Perhaps I'm missing the point of this extension, but either it doesn't do what I want, or the UI is terrible. Sorry.Developer response
posted 7 years agoI think the screenshots shows how to use the plugin, it is not available in ctrl+f search bar, it has its own interface - Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 13497807, 7 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by electron, 7 years agoWould be great to also have the ability to search and replace.
- Rated 2 out of 5by evets90, 7 years agoCouldn't wrap my head around how it works. The interface is confusing. I just want a way to CTRL + F a page and highlight results using regex. I couldn't figure out how to do it with this addon.
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13561551, 7 years agoDoes what it promises. Would be great if you could explain the functionality a little bit more. I cant get my head around the template thing.
Developer response
posted 7 years agoThank for the review. as for the template you can use $x (x is the number of the group in your regex e.g: $1 $2 ... etc) and $n ( for new line), you can also use \ instead of $ ($x to \x or $n to \n) - Rated 2 out of 5by ak2766, 7 years agoI too was hoping to see the search terms highlighted in the page. I just installed it so I know I have the latest version. Dev says it highlights on the page but I'm looking at the search it found and looking at the section of the page where I can see the term I searched for - it is not highlighted!
I have to copy the text in the result field then use Firefox's search (ctrl+f) to highlight the search terms found.
Limited usefulness as it currently stands but with Firefox 57, this appears to be the best out there.
UPDATE: I visited the github link you posted in your reply but only saw the XPI file for Windows - will this also work on Linux? (I wonder why there isn't an option to reply to a developer response!)Developer response
posted 7 years agoSorry for the inconvenience, it is neither your mistake or mine, I uploaded few updates since I published the add-on but lately the review system removed the updates and reverted to 1.0.0 version because of non-sense reasons. however you can download the latest version on the releases page on github https://github.com/Mohd-PH/RegexSearch/releases - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 12649868, 7 years agoThis extension doesn't do a great job at explaining what it is. I was hoping to be able to search for an expression and highlight results on the page, like cmd+F but with regex instead of simple string matching. This extension basically just greps the HTML for your expression and gives the results.