# Display #Anchors

> Displays anchors for all content in the current web page without breaking the layout.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/display-\_anchors](https://chrome-stats.com/d/display-_anchors)

## Overview

- **ID:** `display-_anchors`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Rob W
- **Category:** web-development,bookmarks,other
- **Daily users:** 1,106
- **Weekly downloads:** 7
- **Rating:** 4.87 / 5 (39 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.4resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2017-02-03
- **Size:** 36 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/display-_anchors/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/Rob--W/display-anchors/issues](https://github.com/Rob--W/display-anchors/issues)

## Description

Display #Anchors is a Chrome extension designed to reveal all invisible anchors on any webpage without disrupting the page's layout. It places markers beside each anchor, allowing users to easily identify and link to specific page sections. The anchored content is highlighted when hovering over the marker, and vice versa, facilitating seamless navigation and link creation.

Key features include a non-intrusive design that avoids layout shifts, hover-based highlights for clarity, customizable anchor labels, toolbar toggling, and a convenient keyboard shortcut (Alt + Shift + A) to enable or disable markers quickly. The extension's source code and support are openly available on GitHub, making it transparent and community-driven.

## Rankings

- #3,175 — Overall
- #103 — Bookmarks
- #349 — Web Development
- #1 — display
- #107 — marker
- #114 — break

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `notifications`
- `contextMenus`
- `activeTab`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Enables sending notifications which can be spammed but have minimal direct security impact.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users broadly like Display #Anchors: it works as advertised, makes anchors visible alongside content, and simplifies sharing links to exact sections (chapters, headings, Wikipedia anchors). They value it for long pages and its open-source nature. Common criticisms could not be reliably identified as widely reported across multiple reviews, so no consistent drawbacks appear in the collected feedback.

### Pros

- Does exactly what it says and works as advertised.
- Makes anchors easy to find and copy/share exact page sections (shows anchors alongside content).
- Great for linking to specific parts of long pages, chapters, or headings (e.g., Wikipedia anchors).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/display-_anchors)