DCHighlighter

Double click a word to highlight all occurances. Double clicking another word will highlight the new words.
What is DCHighlighter?
DCHighlighter is a Chrome extension that allows you to double click on any word to highlight all its occurrences on a web page. It provides a convenient way to quickly identify and locate specific words and their occurrences while browsing the internet.

Extension stats

By: Reece
Users: 142 ▲ 4
Rating: 3.60 (5)
Version: 1.0.2 (Last updated: 2014-09-27)
Creation date: 2014-09-26
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • <all_urls>
  • storage
Size: 51.60K

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Extension summary

Just double click to highlight the places that word occurs.

There are places that it won't work or may break the page. Things like Twitter that load content are unlikely to work at all. Some sites just have badly written javascript that breaks and prevents me from running my code.

TODO: build a way to disable the extension on sites that you select (maybe because you don't want or because you found it won't work);

Update: bugfix v1.0.1 - won't search when highlighting words in a textbox. updates v1.0.2 - add link to search google since the word is no longer highlighted.

User reviews

Works nice. Feature missing: deselection, clean up of the highlight on just a single click.
by Piotr Kołodziej, 2024-05-06

marking only 1 letter on Facebook makes the page crash due to memory leaks
by Clemens Ratte-Polle, 2021-09-15

Not bad, but it kills the right-click context menu.
by Scott Rhee, 2014-09-22
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Extension safety

Risk impact

DCHighlighter requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

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

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