What is ctrl-f ULTRA?
ctrl-f ULTRA is a browser extension that supercharges your browser's native Ctrl+F. Instead of a basic text box, you get a powerful find bar built for people who search a lot.
Key features
- Regex support — Use full regular expressions to find complex patterns like emails, URLs, IDs, or anything you can express as a regex.
- Multi-term search — Highlight several terms at once with distinct colors. Smart splitting picks sensible separators so lists and pasted text still break into the right terms.
- PDF search — Search inside PDFs opened in the browser with the same bar and navigation you use on normal pages.
- Saved searches — Store queries you use often and bring them back in one click, handy for research, QA, and repeat lookups.
- Search across tabs — Optional multi-tab mode runs the same search across many open tabs when you need to scan a whole session at once.
- Accessible highlights — Highlight palettes tuned for color vision, including deuteranopia, protanopia, and tritanopia, so matches stay easy to spot.
- Match options — Toggle case-sensitive matching and whole-word mode in plain-text search, separate from regex.
- Keyboard navigation — Cycle matches from the bar with Enter and Shift+Enter, or use extension shortcuts for next and previous anywhere on the page.
How to use it
Activate with Ctrl+Shift+F. Separate multiple terms with | (for example, term1 | term2 | term3). Press Enter for the next match and Shift+Enter for the previous one.
Availability
Available for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge, with Safari coming soon.