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Is there a way to search pages for multiple terms? Word A or Word B or Word G or...

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As it is, Command-F or Control-F searches only support exact phrase search.

If I want to search for any of 6 terms, I have to type them in, one at a time. If I want to search multiple pages, it's a lot of extra typing.

If other people have asked this same question since 57, well, support.mozilla.org does not have a working search function. Apparently Findbar Tweaks provided this function up through 56. But searching "Findbar" in addons.mozilla.org yields every other kind of bar, but nothing involving the findbar, because, well, addons.mozilla.org does not have a working search function, because it stems and defaults to OR searches.

Multi-Keywords Highlighter can highlight these results, but can't help me navigate to each one.

Willing to consider another browser, but must be able to block flashing, block animation, and block blinking cursors, due to neuro issues.

As it is, Command-F or Control-F searches only support exact phrase search. If I want to search for any of 6 terms, I have to type them in, one at a time. If I want to search multiple pages, it's a lot of extra typing. If other people have asked this same question since 57, well, support.mozilla.org does not have a working search function. Apparently Findbar Tweaks provided this function up through 56. But searching "Findbar" in addons.mozilla.org yields every other kind of bar, but nothing involving the findbar, because, well, addons.mozilla.org does not have a working search function, because it stems and defaults to OR searches. Multi-Keywords Highlighter can highlight these results, but can't help me navigate to each one. Willing to consider another browser, but must be able to block flashing, block animation, and block blinking cursors, due to neuro issues.

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There are some extensions that support regular expressions as search terms like the extension you mentioned. Firefox only offers some basic text search with no advanced features apart from match case and whole words.

Here is another extension that came up with a search. It uses regular expressions, so I do not know if you are familiar with this kind of search parameters. I haven't tested it myself.

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There are some extensions that support regular expressions as search terms like the extension you mentioned. Firefox only offers some basic text search with no advanced features apart from match case and whole words.

Here is another extension that came up with a search. It uses regular expressions, so I do not know if you are familiar with this kind of search parameters. I haven't tested it myself.

MarjaE
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Thank you. I occasionally use regex in Calibre. I had some trouble with that earlier today, but have it working now.

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After some more experimentation, {find+} keeps losing its place, and I'm not sure what the privacy settings really mean.

Regex Search can't navigate pages.