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Q: Is it possible to make FF repetitive multi-tab searches more efficient?
A: How?

Using the Windows Firefox latest version of the Tor Browser, if I control+F search for, oh, say, "A", and then F3, one by one, through a score of tabs
to run the same search, Firefox efficiently remembers the same search term (which is good) so that I only have to type that search term once.

Each subsequent tab is the same search with an efficient use of the F3 key.

But, if I want to change the search term to, oh, say, "B", then I have to change the search term on all the dozen tab searches, one per tab.

This is inefficient, especially when the search term is a bit more complex.

Always seeking efficiency like physics seeks entropy, I ask the Windows
Firefox experts if there is an easier (more efficient, i.e., fewer clicks) method to change the search term without having to resort to closing and bringing up the browser again to the dozen tabs, using a Windows command?

Without closing down the entire browser session, the most efficient I can
make it, so far, which, let's be clear, isn't efficient, is to select an existing tab where a prior search was run, and type Control+F and then the
new search term, but that's not what I would like for efficiency as that
has to be done for every tab. Yuck.

Also inefficient, I can open a new tab (Ctrl+N) and copy/paste the old URL
into that new tab, & then a control+F starts fresh, but that's inefficient.

I tried Ctrl+Shift+Delete but in the Tor Browser, that didn't seem to do anything, and neither did a "New Tor Circuit For This Site" graphical click work to wipe out the current search term (as it only changed the back end).

For typing-intensive search terms, I've resorted to saving the search term
in the Windows clipboard, and then Ctrl+F Ctrl+V runs the search by
changing each tab's search term, but that also is inefficient, IMHO.

Q: Is it possible to make FF repetitive multi-tab searches more efficient?
A: How?
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On 8/31/26 12:22 PM, Maria Sophia wrote:

Using the Windows Firefox latest version of the Tor Browser, if I control+F search for, oh, say, "A", and then F3, one by one, through a score of tabs
to run the same search, Firefox efficiently remembers the same search term (which is good) so that I only have to type that search term once.

Each subsequent tab is the same search with an efficient use of the F3 key.

Why do you want to do this? 12 searches of the same?
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Alan K. wrote:

Using the Windows Firefox latest version of the Tor Browser, if I control+F >> search for, oh, say, "A", and then F3, one by one, through a score of tabs >> to run the same search, Firefox efficiently remembers the same search term >> (which is good) so that I only have to type that search term once.

Each subsequent tab is the same search with an efficient use of the F3 key. >>

Why do you want to do this? 12 searches of the same?

If it was easy to resolve, I wouldn't have asked this of FF experts here. Multi-tab searches are a loop of finding old terms when we want new ones.

Apparently the native Firefox remembers the exact search term we type
across every single tab, even if we subsequently change the search term.
<https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-contents-current-page-text-or-links>
<https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perform-firefox-tasks-quickly>

When I'm searching for precise mathematical terms, it is painful to not
only have to type the same difficult term on 20 tabs, but there are many
more complex terms to search for. They should only be typed once, IMHO.

The problem with Windows Firefox (and by extension, the Tor browser) is
when we press Ctrl+F on any tab, Firefox automatically populates the Find
bar with the very last search term we used anywhere in the browser.

However, when we already have "A" highlighted across our 20 tabs via
F3/Ctrl+G, typing Ctrl+F on the next tab pulls up the Find bar, but it highlights the existing word ("A") inside the input box, meaning the very
next thing we type overwrites it. Firefox remembers that globally we
searched for "A last", but it doesn't automatically swap "A" for "B" inside
the active text buffer of the 19 other tabs until we manually clear &
re-type it on each tab.

Ctrl+Shift+Delete won't overcome this flaw because that's for clearing
browsing data/history/etc., whereas the Find-bar state isn't treated as ordinary browsing history. Likewise, a Tor circuit change has nothing to do with Firefox's local Find-bar state, which explains what that did nothing.

One method to somewhat work around this Firefox flaw is to copy "B" to the Windows clipboard once and then Ctrl+F Ctrl+V on all 20 tabs, one by one,
runs the search by changing each tab's search term but that is inefficient.

To make that a bit more efficient, I can add to that workflow an AutoHotkey script (perhaps mapped to a key like F2) that executes
Ctrl+F, Ctrl+V & then Escape
Pressing that once per tab pastes "B" into the bar and updates that tab's memory without us having to spell it out (as "B" can be rather complex).

Since a lot of people have the same basic issue with Firefox, there
apparently are extensions that solve this flaw, which I haven't tried yet.
*How do I make the "Find Panel" (Ctrl-F) more ME friendly?*
<https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/988451>

However, the Tor browser is unfriendly to extensions, so I was hoping there
was a Windows Firefox expert who has already solved this common problem.
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On 9/1/2026 3:45 AM, Maria Sophia wrote:

To make that a bit more efficient, I can add to that workflow an AutoHotkey script (perhaps mapped to a key like F2) that executes
Ctrl+F, Ctrl+V & then Escape
Pressing that once per tab pastes "B" into the bar and updates that tab's memory without us having to spell it out (as "B" can be rather complex).

And why not:

Ctrl+F Ctrl+C Escape Ctrl+TAB Ctrl+F Ctrl+V Escape

This copies the search string from the current tab,
switches to the next tab and inserts the search string.



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