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Find In Tabs Searches Text Across All Your Firefox Tabs
Posted by Adam Pash at 4:00 AM on August 22, 2008
Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension Find In Tabs searches for text across all of your open Firefox tabs. It does so by adding a Find in Tabs button to the find bar that switches from the normal single-page search to a multi-tab search. When you search with Find In Tabs enabled, it provides as-you-type results with context and tab number. This one could come in handy if you're doing some heavy multi-tabbed research and you need to find something you had read but don't remember which page you saw it in, but what's coolest about Find In Tabs has little to do with the multi-tab search.
The best part is the highlighting and context Find In Tabs provides in the search results, which is a killer feature when you're searching for text in large web pages. Rather than skipping through all the matches with the Next/Previous buttons, to see the text surrounding the match, you get a great heads up of all the matches and their surrounding context. Find In Tabs is free, works wherever Firefox does.
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Lifehacked
Posted 4:40 AM 22/8/08
Now if only I could see all the matches at once in the Quick Find feature, which I use twice more than the Find feature.
Lifehacked
gpzbc
Posted 4:55 AM 22/8/08
hmmm... great idea. But I wonder exactly how functional it is. Or better yet, I wonder just how much I would use it. I do a ton of research that involves many tabs. But it is not often that I am searching for a single word on multiple sites. If I am searching for a single word across multiple sites.... well this is sort of what I use google for.
gpzbc
l337_7r4d3r
Posted 7:21 AM 22/8/08
Freakn brilliant... I can google, fire gesture open all the results and run this. 10 seconds what would used to take 2 minutes. :)
l337_7r4d3r
Quine
Posted 10:18 AM 22/8/08
Awesome extension!
Does anyone know of a plugin that would let me switch to tabs based on name (similar to how textmate's command+t works) from a keyboard shortcut. That'd be reaaaaaally useful for me.
Quine
capintro
Posted 3:15 PM 22/8/08
@Lifehacked:
If you mean quick find feature using "/", then yes, FiT does support it as long as it is enabled in the regular search function with Alt+I.
capintro
capintro
Posted 3:23 PM 22/8/08
ops, looks like quick find (links only) function is broken with FiT enabled. It is acting exactly like / function.
capintro
Biologyfool
Posted 6:53 AM 23/8/08
Warning: it doesn't seem to be playing nice when I've got an IE Tab open. Otherwise it seems to work well.
Biologyfool
mishac
Posted 5:35 AM 22/8/08
Thanks for the nice review of Find In Tabs!
@ Lifehacked:
To enable Quick Find to use Find In Tabs:
1. Do a Ctrl+f find.
2. Click the "Find in Tabs" button.
3. Close the find bar (bottom-left. Not the find in tabs result list
(top-right)).
4. Do a quick find.
Magic!
Expect a new version in the next few days with some new features
(favicons in search results, resizable columns ...)
mishac
dilmo22
Posted 6:32 AM 27/8/08
Is there any add on that allows you to search several words at once (giving different colours to each)?
dilmo22
Fain
Posted 7:12 AM 27/8/08
using ctrl+f, the search box does not have focus default apparently with FiT
Was using the plugin for a few days before I noticed I was having to click the search box everytime I ctrl+fed to try to find something
Fain