Selection Highlighter

Automatically highlight all occurrences of current selection on current page.
What is Selection Highlighter?
Selection Highlighter is a Chrome extension that automatically highlights all occurrences of the current selection on the current page. It also allows you to customize the highlighting color and toggle the feature on/off. Version 0.0.3 includes a new threshold configuration and ignore functionality for the 'style' tag.

Extension stats

By: Tao
Users: 151 ▲ 10
Rating: 3.67 (3)
Version: 0.0.3 (Last updated: 2020-07-17)
Creation date: 2020-06-03
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • <all_urls>
  • storage
  • tabs
Size: 99.16K

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

Selection highlighter will help you automatically highlight all occurrences of current selection on current page, also works for shadow DOM pages. The extension also allow you to toggle on/off the feature from options page, also change the default configurations like highlight color etc

Release notes:

v0.0.3:

  • Allow config the threshold to ignore selection when apply highlighting
  • Always ignore style tag when highlighting, avoid messing up the page

User reviews

it works. Since the store doesn't want it, consider to release it on gthb
by Walker Talker, 2024-08-29

One of the extensions that was very useful. Please include Persian language support for it. thank you.
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Selection Highlighter requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Selection Highlighter has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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