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Reviews for Multi Find: Search, Highlight, Explore

Multi Find: Search, Highlight, Explore by Vincent Greco

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  • by Ran, 2 months ago
    Seems very broken for me. For starters, from a convenience standpoint, there doesn't seem to be a way to "search" with the keyboard, since pressing enter jumps to a new line, I have to manually click the previous/next arrows to actually go to the found results. There's also no way to make it match default search behavior when it comes to closing and opening it. It either remembers your last search forever even after you close the window, even sticking through multiple tabs and forever highlighting words until you manually delete them, or it automatically deletes what you searched only after you close and reopen the window. The regular search disappears when you close the search bar, but still remembers the last thing you searched when you reopen it.

    Then, the colors for the highlight are always be very dull, no matter what I choose on the settings.

    On a functional note, it seems to randomly add those scroll bar arrows when first loading pages, often disappearing after a second but sometimes they don't and just stick there forever, even with nothing searched at all. Even worse, sometimes those arrows appear inside other containers of the page (like in a video) instead of only on the very edge.

    Finally, after messing around with it for a while it just... stopped working. It currently doesn't find anything at all, even after removing and re-adding the extension, closing and reopening the windows, etc.

    Developer response

    posted 10 hours ago
    Thank you for your detailed feedback — I'm really sorry about the problems you encountered.

    Regarding keyboard shortcuts: it is possible to assign a shortcut to search for the next occurrence and another shortcut for the previous occurrence (although unfortunately "Enter" cannot be assigned as a shortcut key). To set this up, click the puzzle piece icon to open the Extensions page, then click the gear icon to open the tools menu, and choose "Manage extension shortcuts."

    About your comment on matching the default search behavior more closely: I took it very seriously and made two significant changes.
    First, in the search window, you can now click the "eye" icon and choose the half-open eye mode: highlights will only be visible when the search window is open, similar to the default search bar behavior.
    Second, there is now a new option in the display settings to choose what should be shown when you reopen the search window — including an option to automatically select all the previous search content, allowing you to instantly replace it by typing a new word.

    As for the highlight colors: all highlight colors are fully customizable through the display settings (just click the gear icon in the Multi Find window).

    Concerning the random arrows appearing on the page: I have fixed a bug that caused unexpected scrollbar arrows, so hopefully it should now work much better. However, please note that scrollbars (and their arrows) can appear not only on the main page but also inside any iframe embedded in the page.

    Finally, regarding the extension completely stopping working: I don't have a clear explanation, and I am surprised that uninstalling and reinstalling didn't solve it. Perhaps cleaning the browser's cache could help?

    Again, thank you very much for your feedback: it helps me improving Multi Find!
  • by Meowstic, 2 months ago