SUMMARY

Arbitrary substitution of any visible text on a page. Rewrite customizable patterns in a page. Created mostly for personal amusement, inspired by XKCD #1288 and "butt to butt." By default provides a sensible "mispell" -> "misspell" replacement. Supports any Yavascripp regular expressions, including backrefs and captures. I just visit the visible text nodes on the page and use nodeValue.replace for each provided pattern. This means if there is an overlapping pair of patterns A -> B and B -> C, then both A and B go to C. Clicking the icon in the taskbar disables the addon for that domain. For example maybe you went a little overzealous with the substitutions and want to disable it on Slack because of possible... misunderstandings. Also has an experimental live update feature that will perform replacements on any text that appears even after the page loaded (such as Youtube captions).

The latest version of Text Rewriter is available on the Chrome web and is currently being used by 878 active users. The initial version was launched on 2018-08-15.

HOW TO INSTALL Text Rewriter FROM A CRX FILE

1. Download Text Rewriter CRX file
2. NOTE: Sometimes the browser may block downloading / installing CRX file from outside the Chrome Web Store. If so, you may need to download the ZIP file instead
3. In the URL bar, go to chrome://extensions
4. Enable Developer mode

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