Highlight Color

Change the default Highlight Color

Highlight Color: Customize Your Text Highlighting Color

'Highlight Color' is a Chrome extension designed for those who want to customize the color of highlighted text on webpages. No more settling for the default blue; choose a color that suits your style with a few easy steps. Just enable the extension, pick a color using your computer's default picker, and save the changes. Despite its current non-optimized code, the developers are committed to enhancing its performance and resolving installation issues some users are facing. Look forward to a renewed Version 4.0 while enjoying the current functionalities of Version 3.0.

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Extension stats

By: Partial Science

Users: 4,000+

Rating: 2.81

(73)

Version: 3.0 (Last updated: 2015-09-30)

Creation date: 2015-09-30

Permissions:

tabs
http://*/*
https://*/*

Size: 883.71K

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 14,103 ▼ 11

Other rankings

#6407 in Just for Fun ▲ 72 #20 in change color keyword 24 ▼ 3 #99 in color keyword 24 ▼ 32

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

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Pros

Cool and flexible color options
Fits well with user themes
Provides a solution for highlighting text more prominently

Cons

Does not save highlight colors after closing Chrome
Doesn't work on certain websites with their own selection styles
Disables and resets itself after relaunching Chrome
Poor usability and design
Inconsistent functionality with Chrome's search functionality

Most mentioned

Doesn't work
Does not save
Requires reconfiguration after browser restarts
Cool colors and flexibility

User reviews

Doesn't work when the site itself has a style for selection color, it doesn't override it, which is the whole point of this type of extension. And I don't see any effort recently to fix it or improve in any way.

SpamBox, 2024-04-23

Does exactly what it's supposed to do. Make sure you click "save changes" or else it won't work. [Tested on Vivaldi]

Steph, 2024-03-26

doesn't work

Jacob Goodson, 2023-09-03

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Extension safety

Risk impact

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

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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