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Find & Replace - Edit Text on Page

Find and replace text anywhere on the current page, with match-case and regex. Optionally in inputs too. Local, nothing saved.

Version
3.0.3

This one is built but not on a store yet. The page is here so you can see what it does.

The browser can find text on a page, but it can't change it. This adds replace: swap any word or phrase across the whole page in one go.

Type what to find and what to replace it with, and choose your options — match case, regular expressions, and whether to include text inside input and textarea fields. Click Replace all and it reports how many matches it changed. The edit is live in the page; reload to undo.

It runs only when you click, on the tab you're looking at. Nothing is saved and nothing is sent anywhere.

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What it does

  • Replace text across the whole page at once.

  • Match case and full regular-expression support.

  • Optionally replace inside input and textarea fields.

  • Reports how many matches were changed.

  • Runs locally

    nothing saved, nothing sent.

How to use it

  1. 01Open the page you want to edit.
  2. 02Click the icon, type the find and replace text.
  3. 03Set options if needed, then click Replace all.

Permissions & privacy

Single purpose

Single purpose: Find and replace text on the current page when the user runs it. Permission — activeTab: Used to access the current tab only when the user clicks Replace all. Permission — scripting: Used to run the find-and-replace routine in the active tab on demand. No content scripts run automatically. Host permissions: None. No host_permissions and no <all_urls>; page access is granted only on the user's click via activeTab. Remote code: None. All code is bundled; nothing is fetched or eval'd at runtime. Data collection / transmission: None. No data is collected, stored, or transmitted. The replacement happens in the page and is not persisted.

activeTabCan read the page you're currently on, and only after you click the extension.
scriptingRuns the extension's own code on pages, to change what you see.

Runs entirely in your browser and only when you click. It edits the text of the current page in place, stores nothing, and makes no network requests. Independent extension. It runs only the code shipped inside the package — no remote code is fetched.

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