Highlighter

Highlight text on websites with a simple right-click or keyboard shortcut. Saves highlights on your device.

Highlighter - Easy Text Highlighting Chrome Extension

'Highlighter' is a Chrome extension designed to easily highlight text on various webpages. With the capability to save the highlighted texts, it lets users refer back to them upon revisiting the website. Additionally, it offers customization options for highlight and text colors. It supports a keyboard shortcut for effortless use. Keep in mind, dynamically changing webpages may not support these features.

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By: Jérôme Parent-Lévesque

Users: 100,000+

Rating: 3.69

(285)

Version: 4.0.5 (Last updated: 2023-06-26)

Creation date: 2019-10-27

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

contextMenus
scripting
storage

Host permissions:

<all_urls>

Size: 91.65K

Email: je*****@hotmail.ca

Ranking

# 2,208 ▼ 43

Other rankings

#2989 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 1

#1 in highlighter keyword 28

#165 in full page keyword 82 ▼ 1

#186 in right click keyword 55 ▼ 8

#240 in policy keyword 62 ▼ 3

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Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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Easiest way to highlight text on any webpage! Simply select text, then right click it to select the "Highlight" option. Alternatively, use the default keyboard shortcut 'Alt+H' (^H on Mac).

All highlighted texts are saved so that your highlights are not lost when exiting a page! Simply re-opening that page will bring back all the highlights. NOTE: This does not work on very dynamic webpages like Facebook and most email clients. Support for these might be added in the future.

➪ View and copy all highlights on a page ➪ Copy all your highlights to your clipboard easily. ➪ Select existing highlights with a simple click to either delete them or to copy their content. ➪ Customize your highlight colors (and text color). ➪ Change the keyboard shortcut through Chrome settings at 'chrome://extensions/shortcuts'.

The code for this project is fully open-source and is available on GitHub: https://github.com/jeromepl/highlighter Help this project by reporting issues and contributing there!

User reviews

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Pros

It works fine for highlighting when it does work.
Users have found it helpful and enjoyable to use at times.
The extension has the potential to be useful for specific website highlighting needs.

Cons

Does not work consistently across different platforms and browsers.
Many users report that highlights do not save or disappear upon refreshing the page.
Not functional on Google Docs and PDF documents.
Users have difficulty accessing or locating their previously highlighted content.

Most mentioned

The extension often does not work or has significant functionality issues.
Users express frustration over highlights disappearing or not being saved.
It lacks features to access all highlights in one place.

User reviews

Originally was going to say it doesn't work but I just had to refresh my screens after installing the extension. I love it!! Love that I could create my own shortcut. I used cmd + H to highlight which is more convenient than the original for me