- regular expressions are good for finding patterns in text
- some people have both the desire and the time to write large amounts of text, which is then published on the web
- copious amounts of text are a problem to impatient programmers armed with regular expressions
- helpful internet denizen published browser extensions to search webpages with regular expressions
- has a fatal flaw
- keyword “find” is configured to hijack omnibox entries and route them into the extension
- makes any legitimate search engine queries that begin with “find” require special handling
- catches you by surprise and snaps you out of flow!
- tweaked the configuration to use “find+” instead
- signed Firefox version can be found here