How to Search Text across All Tabs in Chrome and Edge

This tutorial shows you how you can find a specific text or phrase on all opened tabs in Chrome or Edge on Windows.

Is there a way to do a text search across all open tabs in Chrome?

Yes, you can perform a text search across all opened tabs in Chrome without manually moving from one tab to another. To do so, you must use a free external web extension. Multiple extensions, including Tab Search and Ctrl-F Plus, let you do so. Let us check out how.

How to search text across all tabs in Google Chrome?

Ctrl-F Plus is a free extension that enables you to search for a specific word, phrase, or text across all tabs in a browser window. This extension is available for Google Chrome. You can install it from the Chrome web store. Here’s how you can do that:

1. Open Chrome.
2. Go to the Chrome web store.
3. Install Ctrl-F Plus.
4. Set the keyboard shortcut to activate the extension.
5. Press the assigned shortcut key.
6. Enter the text you want to search.

First, open your Chrome browser and go to the Chrome web store.

In the search box, type “Ctrl-F Plus” and press the Enter button. From the search results, click on the Ctrl-F Plus: Ctrl + F Search Across All Tabs extension and then click on the Add to Chrome button. After that, press the Add extension button to complete the installation.

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When the extension is installed, go to the Extensions icon from the top right corner. of the browser window. Then, press the Pin button present next to the Ctrl-F Plus extension.

Once the extension is pinned, right-click on it and choose the Set Keyboard Shortcut option.

Next, enter the hotkey that you want to use to activate the extension. To do that, click on the Edit button and then type the new hotkey that you want to set. The default hotkey for that is CTRL + SHIFT + F.

Now, you can press the assigned hotkey to enable the Ctrl-F Plus extension and then start searching for a specific text on multiple tabs at once.

Type the text you want to search in the Black search bar and press the Enter button. It will show you the number of matching results it fetched on multiple opened tabs.

You can keep pressing the Enter button multiple times to move from one result to another. Or, you can click on the up or down arrow button to jump between search results.

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How to search text across all tabs in Microsoft Edge?

To search text across all opened tabs in Edge, you can use the Search all Tabs
add-on. It is a free add-on available on the Edge Add-ons page. Here’s how you can use it:

1. Launch Edge and open the Edge Add-ons page.
2. Add the Search all Tabs extension.
3. Show the extension on the toolbar.
4. Click on the extension.
5. Enter your search query.

First, open the Edge browser and then open the Edge Add-ons page.

Next, search for the Search all Tabs extension and add it to your browser by clicking on the Get > Add extension button.

Now, click on the Extensions icon from the toolbar at the top-right section. Click on the Show in toolbar option to show the extension on the toolbar.

After that, click on the Search all Tabs extension from the toolbar to open the search prompt.

Now, enter your query in the respective search box, wait for the extension to search across all tabs, and fetch search results.

You can simply click on a search result to navigate to the page. You can also press the ENTER key to move to the first matched tab.

It also lets you group all matched tabs as a new window.

This extension also lets you customize it. You can right-click on the extension on the toolbar and set up options. It lets you enable or disable options like Ignore Duplicated Tabs, Ignore PDF Files, and Always Try to Scroll to a Matching Result. Apart from that, you can set up features like search engine, search crawler, search scope, maximum size of each content, search size, snippet size, indexing time, etc.

How do you search multiple tabs in Edge?

To find opened tabs in Edge, you can press the CTRL + SHIFT + A shortcut key. A prompt will open up showing you all opened tabs as well as recently closed tabs. You can search for a specific tab and quickly navigate to it or perform whatever action you want to.

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