SearchEdit - Multi Search - Simultaneous Searches

Multi Search - Simultaneous Searches

By Bausch Patrick. Wednesday, 30. September 2009, 16:22:37

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With SearchEdit 0.4 we introduced a new feature: “Multi Search”.
Many users might not exactly know how to use “Multi Search” so we have decided to give a few more explications and examples:

Years ago you could with Opera's Search Type 2 (Super Search) make a parallel search of search 1 & search 2 in one window.
Multi Search works different. In fact it's a javascript search.

First you choose your multi search mode: Open search in different tabs or in one tab using frames. If you prefer to use only one tab, you have to choose between 2 or 4 engines. 1 or 3 is not an option...

Then select your searches, choose a name and keyword and push the create-button... done

Unfortunately there are some restrictions: POST-Searches, JavaScript-searches and empty URL-searches (ex. find in page) are not supported and will not be available for selection.
The same search cannot be used successively in the same tab.

Your chances are good that you can change POST-searches into GET-Searches, like it was done in the example of the subtitles (forum thread). But you have to do this manually.

There is a very handy way to share you multi searches: Use SearchEdit's Import/Export function: