Find All Instances of a Word or Phrase in All Open Firefox Tabs with Firefox Add-on Find in Tabs
Posted by: Barry Cleave in Firefox Add-ons, tags: Add-ons, Firefox, Freeware, Independent Review, Software, Utilities, Windows, WIndows Vista, Windows XPMore About What it Does in Detail:
Find in Tabs installs just like any other Firefox add-on and is available at the Mozilla Add-ons website here.
Quote from the Add-ons page:
Long Description
Clicking the "Find in Tabs" button on the find bar will search for text in all open tabs, and show a list of search results.
Clicking any of the results will jump to the tab on which it was found, and scroll directly to the highlighted text.Works with:
- Firefox: 3.0 – 3.1a2
General Use of Autocopy
This review will follow the usual format of presenting the majority of information as screenshots backed up by further information where necessary.
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Once installed Autocopy displays an extra button in the Firefox Find bar:
Clicking on the Find in Tabs button opens a search pane at the bottom of the browser window:
This pane shows the results highlighted in a yellow baloon with a red border which is very distinctive.
At the same time a similar highlight is shown within the selected page. The selection of the page/tab is automatic when clicking on a search result line in the results pane:
Options
These are accessed from the Add-ons manager available through the Tools menu:
These are limited to:
- The number of results displayed
- The delay between searches
- Checking for compatibility with other add-ons
- Showing Favicons
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October 10th, 2008 at 6:43 am - Edit
Very useful tool, thanks Barry!
March 30th, 2009 at 3:03 pm - Edit
Very Great Idea, but another great idea would be to do a real search engine allowing to make complex requests (with and,or,…).