> Hi all,
>
> is there any option to do full text searches in a FireBird database
> like you can with e.g. the MySQL full text indexes.

I doubt Firebird can do this as part of the engine, but if you are
using IBO then full text search components are available (even fuzzy
search):

http://www.ibobjects.com/docs/FTS_ONLINE/FTS_index.html

HTH,
Set