How do I search for a word within a web page

I would like to be able to do a search for a pecific within the page currenly viewed in the browser. Is there a way to do that in Firefox?

Hi JossefPerl,
Searching on a page is actually really easy. You can just hit ''CTRL + F'' to use the search feature. You should take a look at the Knowledge Base article on [[Searching within a page]] for more information.
Hopefully this helps!

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First, thanks, I did. My naive take is that new plug-ins wouldn't be required.
Second - I don't know about Google finding every document, but it returns some pretty impressive results, and fast (so long as Google indexes the page in the first place of course). You've never used this feature? I do it all the time when I want to see if there's an internet version of a document I have in my hand.
Here's a random example the feature in action - I went to boingboing.net and snagged a phrase from the October archives: "You should give props to BabyStyle.com for the blue octopus costume". Here's the link to the October page:
http://boingboing.net/200610_01archive.html
and here's the link to the successful Google search:
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&client=firefox-a &rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Youshould+give+props+to+BabyStyle.com+for+the+blue+octopuscostume%22&btnG=Search
Pretty impressive - the internet is a big place!
Thirdly, there was a program written for OS 9 called "Gopher" that did just that. It was pretty handy. Come to think of it, it may have been written for System 8! It vanished from publication before there was even a web for it to be distributed on, and when I switched to OS X, it wasn't working well under 9. Of course outside of the personal computing realm, there are well known database programs like Lexis and Nexis that perform exact phrase searches on their databases, which are pretty extensive (at least as large as most document collections on most personal computers, I'd venture). In fact if you've never used those programs they have some pretty powerful functions, like searching for any occurrence of a word within so many words of a second target word.
I'll give you a couple of examples of where phrase searching might come in handy. Suppose I have a collection of e-mails or correspondence (I guess we all do) and I want to find the one in which I facetiously repeated the punchline to the chicken joke - "to get to the other side". (You have to grant I might have a reason for wanting this particular e-mail, okay?) Of course if I search on "get", "other" and "side" I may wind up with four or five hundred results; those are pretty common words. That doesn't help me much. A phrase search,however, will yield, I dunno, three or four documents. Bingo.
Or, here. I work in an office creating documents all day long. I've been working in this office, on PCs, for 16 years. That's a lot of documents. I may create three dozen or more on a single subject. The documents are all on the same subject and all pretty much have the same words in them. Maybe I've got a single paragraph printed from one of them and want to find the source document. A simple word search will yield back 80% of the lot. A phrase search typed in from the paragraph is almost certainly unique, however, and will give me my document in a blink.
(Um, I'd have to move all the documents to a Macintosh to do this, but you get the point I hope.)
Spotlight says it finds "anything anywhere" on your computer. I would use a feature like this *all the time*. Why shouldn't it be able to do it?

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How do I search for a word through multiple files in my directories ??
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You need to pass only the directory name as parameter and then retrieve the files(recursively throug subdirs or not, however you wish) of that directory.
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HTH
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I have a job that includes looking for many different words in large paragraphs. I would make things much faster for me if - instead of typing in "word 1", and then clearing it, and then typing in "word 2" - but rather, I could somehow search for a few words at once. Is there a way to do this? An add-on? Something built in?
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You write that it worked "before"; before what? An update? Update from what version to what version?

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Lilan,
To search a character field for a particular pattern, use the SEARCH statement as follows:
SEARCH <c> FOR <str> <options>.
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AND MARK
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Yep,
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*Hit enter or select an auto completion choice
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*If you cannot see the timeline, click the timeline icon in the top right corner.
*Hover over any filter, person, folder, tag, account or mailing list in the left pane to see where in time and on the timeline the messages matching the filter are located.
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*Select can't be… from the menu that comes up.
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1. I open the Contacts App on my iPhone 5 running iOS 6.0.1.
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I need to search for a specific list of words but I want to search only one time... So for example if I'm searching 3 different words HELLO - GOODBYE - CIAO I want that acrobat perform the searches in the same time and let me see how many times the words are repeated.
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