Hover Highlighter

Temporary text highlighting for faster reading

Hover Highlighter - Temporary text highlighting

Hover Highlighter is a chrome extension that adds a highlighting effect to the text you hover over. It is great for faster reading, studying, and tracking text on your screen.
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Extension stats

Users: 198
-5
Rating: 2.33
(3)
Version: 0.0.5 (Last updated: 2018-08-21)
Creation date: 2018-08-20
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
Size: 59.20K

Other platforms

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Extension summary

Read with ease using HOVER HIGHLIGHTER!

A simple chrome extension that adds a highlighting effect to the text you hover over. This reading aide is great for digesting any story, instruction, comment, or post you come across. Simply click on the extension icon, press the big ON button and watch your text come to life as you follow along with your mouse.

Need some extra focus when studying for that exam? Hover Highlighter's live highlighting will allow your eyes to more easily track the text on your screen so you can get through those tough passages. Come to an end of your studying and just want to relax? press the green ON button to turn off Hover Highlighter until you need it next.

COMING SOON -Want to customize your highlight? It's on its way!

UPDATE 0.0.5 -Hover Highlighter only highlights when moving mouse from left to right -Fixed ON - OFF bugs

User reviews

Please fix it, it doesn't work
by Amber CY Tsai, 2020-11-12

This doesn't seem to be working on any tabs (I had accepted all permissions). This extension sounds like a wonderful idea and I hope the devs. look into this and fix the bugs!
by Mitali Shah, 2020-07-26
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Hover Highlighter requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

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

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