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Instructions
Click on the Multi Find icon or press Ctrl-Shift-F to open the search box.
Insert the strings you are looking for, separated by line breaks.
Each string can be a word fragment, an entire word, or even several words.
There is one color of highlight per line, and thus per string.
You can specify whether the match must be exact, at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of a word or a word sequence.
Click on the arrow buttons or press Ctrl-Shift-Left and Ctrl-Shift-Right to select and jump to the previous or next occurrence of an highlighted word.
Use the upper toggle switch called "keep highlights on" or press Ctrl-Shift-X to enable or disable the highlightings when the input box is closed.
Use the "case sensitive" toggle switch to indicate whether your search should take the case into account.
Use the "diacritic sensitive" toggle switch to indicate whether your search should take the diacritics (accent, cedilla...) into account.
Use the "scrollbar marks" toggle switch to display or hide the scrollbar marks.
New in version 1.92
Highly requested features:
Custom word separators: You can now choose how words are separated (|, comma, space, or a custom string like " OR "). This can be configured in the display options (click the gear icon).
Site allow/block list: You can now block the extension on specific domains, or allow it only on selected ones. Right-click on the word list to access this feature via a context menu.
Sound notifications: You can now choose between two different notification sounds. This option is available in the display settings.
Support the extension: A red heart button has been added to the toolbar to support the development of Multi Find. You can hide it via the display settings (click the gear icon).
Customizable context menu: The context menu that appears when right-clicking text on a webpage is now configurable (e.g., to add selected or similar words).
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in version 1.90
Bug Fixes & Improvements:
Major Fix: Resolved an issue where entering characters using the multi-byte input method (such as for Japanese or Chinese) would cause errors.
Minor Fix: Addressed a visual glitch where a left-pointing arrow briefly appeared while loading certain web pages.
New in version 1.88
Sound Notifications: You can now receive an audible signal when searched words are found in the current tab. This option is disabled by default. To enable it, either go to the display options (not super intuitive) or assign a keyboard shortcut to the toggle sound notification action.
Highlight Blinking: To make highlighted words easier to spot, you can now make the highlights blink twice by clicking the new "waving hand" button (which can be hidden via interface settings) or by assigning a keyboard shortcut to the corresponding action.
Demo Page: The demo page has been updated to reflect version 1.88. You can use it to try Multi Find without downloading and installing it.
New in version 1.87
Support Multi Find! A new "Donate" button has been added, allowing users to contribute and help keep Multi Find free, ad-free, and continuously improving.
Bug fixes & improvements:
Minor stability and performance enhancements.
Various small bug fixes for a smoother experience.
New in version 1.86
New highlight visibility mode: In addition to "Always On" (open eye) and "Always Off" (closed eye), a new mode (represented by a half-open eye icon) enables highlights only when the popup window is open.
Customizable selection behavior: When opening the popup window, you can now choose how the selection/cursor behaves:
Preserve Selection: Keeps the previous selection.
New Entry Lin: Places the cursor in a new or last empty line.
Select All: Selects all text for quick replacement.
Bug fixes & improvements:
Improved popup stability and appearance.
Enhanced transparency preview in display options.
New eye icons.
Resolved display issues on eBay, ensuring extension elements remain visible.
New in version 1.85
Improved formatting for multiple expressions in the search box: When searching for different expressions separated by pipes (|), the expressions are highlighted properly, and the pipes are displayed in red to distinguish them from the search terms.
Selection retention: Selections in the input box now remain highlighted even if you click another button or close and reopen the search window.
New in version 1.84
Multiple words per line: A first version of this much-anticipated feature is finally available. You can now enter several words or expressions in the same line by separating them with the "pipe" character (`|`). It is fully functional, although the display in the search box still needs some improvements.
Bug fixes: It is now possible to modify colors beyond the tenth.
New in version 1.83
Theme Selector: A new button in the search window lets you switch between light, dark, or system themes. The theme can still be changed in display options, and this button can be removed via interface options.
Highlight Display Options: You can now hide highlights entirely while still searching for words. Use scrollbar marks or navigation buttons to find them.
Context Menu Update: A new option allows adding all words with a similar tag hierarchy to the selected word to the search list.
New in version 1.82
Transparency Feature: In the display settings, you can now enable the search window to become slightly transparent when the mouse cursor is outside of it, allowing you to see highlights behind the window.
Bug Fix: The dark theme now properly applies to the options and welcome pages, fixing issues with white backgrounds or unaffected pages.
Optimization: Icons are now handled more efficiently, leading to quicker load times.
New in version 1.81
Show/Hide Word Parameters: You can now enable or disable the display of the newly added word parameters from the interface settings.
Various Speed Optimizations: Diacritic search has been sped up, particularly. However, if you primarily browse English pages, please consider turning on diacritic sensitivity for better performance.
Various Bug Fixes: Addressed color issues and other minor bugs.
New in version 1.80
Highlight enable/disable: you can now enable or disable highlights for each expression individually using a small eye icon on each line.
Custom highlight colors: change the color of any expression using a small color swatch on each line. Colors are now linked to expressions, not line numbers, and follow expressions even when sorting.
Global highlight toggle: the "keep highlights on" toggle switch has been replaced with an eye icon that controls the highlights of all expressions, regardless of whether the search window is open or closed.
Various bug fixes: improvements to the user interface, spelling corrections, and other minor bug fixes.
New in version 1.74
Movable search window and scrollbar marks: you can now define their default positions in the display settings.
Search expressions input frame: a horizontal scrollbar will appear if you enter a very long expression.
Bug fix: if you enter an expression that is already included in a previously entered one, both expressions will be found.
Supported languages: Russian support added, by courtesy of a contributor (thank you, Aleksandr).
New in version 1.73
Movable search window: you can now move the search window to any corner of the webpage using the two small directional buttons.
Scrollbar marks positioning: the scrollbar marks can now be moved to either the left or right side of the webpage using a small directional button.
Bug fix: fixed a bug related to one of the sorting features accessible via the toolbar.
New in version 1.72
Persistent search window: the search window now stays open even if you click outside of it, change tabs, or switch browser windows.
Optional classic behavior: you can choose to revert to the previous behavior where the search window disappears when it loses focus via a new display option.
Improved communication: the extension now uses a more efficient communication system, which eliminates the need for the webNavigation permission.
New in version 1.71
Ability to remove or add highlight colors (from 1 to 20).
Edit the colors of both the light and dark themes on the same page.
Default hue of the added color is as different as possible from existing colors.
New in version 1.70
Color sub-range choice removed.
Customize highlight colors.
Sort searched words according to their frequency of appearance.
New in version 1.63
Added Undo and Redo buttons to the word list toolbar.
Support for Simplified Chinese language.
New in version 1.61
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New button to access the help page. It can be hidden through the interface settings.
Support for French language.
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New in version 1.60
New settings for light theme and dark theme.
You can now choose a sub-range of 1 to 10 colors among the ones that are available to highlight your words. In particular, you can highlight with one single color if you wish.
Sorting the words or clearing the found words will also remove the empty lines from the list.
The bug that occasionally made the list of words disappear has been fixed.
New in version 1.54
Many keyboard shortcuts can now be manually assigned to commands.
A bug was fixed, causing the highlighted words disappearing on some websites.
Minor cosmetic changes.
New in version 1.51
A new toolbar to interact with the word list (load/save, clear all/found/unseen words, sort). The toolbar can be activated or deactivated in the interface options.
The total number of occurrences of all search words for the current webpage can be displayed on top of the extension icon. This feature can be activated or deactivated in the display options.
Ctrl-Shift-X, that was broken in version 1.40, is working again.
New in version 1.40
In addition to the interface options, two new tabs are available in the option menu: the display options and the coming soon section.
Soft glow highlights are now available through the display options: the color of the highlight can now be seen, even if the higlighted word is selected.
For performance issues, by default, words are searched as soon as you type their second character: you can now override this beahvior and search of one-character expressions through the display options.
New in version 1.32
Option settings:
you can now totally customize the interface of the input box by removing or adding back any element. The settings are persistant.
You can now add a word to the search list by selecting it on the webpage, right-clicking and then choosing the approprate option in the contextual menu.
New in version 1.30
Full support of the frames (IFRAME):
when you click into a frame (you can recognize them because they have their own scrollbar marks),
you can now see the number of occurrences of this particular frame.
You can also jump from one occurrence to another still inside the frame. Works also for nested frames.
Click outside the frame to go back to the main page.
The "hightlight" toggle switch has been replaced by a "keep hightlights on" toggle switch: now, when the input box is open the highlights are always visible,
this toggle switch only defines the behavior of the highlights when the input box is closed.
A close button has been added.
Keyboard shortcuts to jump from word to word have been changed.
New in version 1.20
Diacritic sensitiveness can be turned off.
Does not cancel or modify the current selection range.
Works with some "contenteditable" boxes (for instance when you answer a post on a forum, or modify an article of Wikipedia).
Ctrl-Shift-X toggles the extension on or off.
Less interferences with the webpage formatting.
New in version 1.14
Ctrl-Shift-F has replaced Ctrl-M.
Ctrl-Shift-Arrow Up and Ctrl-Shift-Arrow Down jump to the previous or the next highlighted word, even if the input box is closed (but highlight must be enabled).
New in version 1.13
Display the number of occurrences of each searched word in the webpage (iFrames excluded).
Select and jump to the next occurrence of a particular searched word or to the next occurrence of any of the searched words (iFrames excluded).
Display color scrollbar markers to indicate where the searched words are located within the webpage.
Known issues
The jump feature can get lost when more one scrollbar is present in the page: going back and forth can help.
If a searched sequence of words appears in the webpage with some words formatted differently from others (example one word in bold, not the others), it will not be recognized.
The content of some buttons, single line input box and textarea, that do not support text formatting, will not be highlighted.
Does not work on pdf documents (while your browser is acting as a pdf viewer).
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