Highlight Color

Change the default Highlight Color

What is Highlight 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

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Users: 4,000+

Rating: 2.78 (72)

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

Creation date: 2015-09-30

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

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

Size: 883.71K

Ranking

# 15569 ▼ 18

Other rankings

#6140 in Just for Fun ▲ 5 #13 in change color keyword 15 #75 in color keyword 78 #196 in color picker keyword 79 ▼ 1

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Extension summary

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Tiered of seeing that boring and dull shade of blue when ever you select text on a website? Well now you can change the color with only a few simple clicks

How to use

Download the extension Click the Enabled Box Select the colors you want easily with your computers default color picker Then click "save changes" and the color will change It's that simple

Version 3.0 Bug fixes PS the code is really messy and poorly optimized as this is one of the first extensions I had ever written and I will do a complete rewrite of it when I get the chance for the next update. Hopefully 3.0 fixed an installation issue some users were facing but don't worry this poor state is only temporary and Version 4.0 should be much better so stay posted and I hope you like the extension :)

User reviews

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Pros

Allows customization of highlight colors to fit user themes
Provides a solution for users frustrated with default highlight colors
Easy to use once set up correctly

Cons

Does not save settings after closing Chrome
Frequently does not work on the latest Chrome versions
Ineffective in overriding site-specific styles
Not functional when highlighting in PDFs
Poor user interface and design issues

Most mentioned

Doesn't work
Does not save
Need to reset settings each time
Frustrating setup process
Works temporarily

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.