Multi Highlight

Name: Multi Highlight
Rating: 3.361111111111111 (72 reviews)
Author: VinC

Efficiently and flexibly highlight your online reading.

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Multi Highlight is a powerful Chrome extension designed to enhance your online reading experience. It allows you to highlight user-specified words instantly across webpages with a variety of customizable colors. The extension supports real-time highlighting as you type, automatic re-highlighting when webpage content updates, custom word separators, case sensitivity, whole word search, and grouping of words by color.

Ideal for students, professionals, and avid readers, Multi Highlight helps maintain focus by visually organizing important information efficiently. Its adaptability includes support for asynchronous content (like AJAX), nested highlights, and persistent settings across tabs. Continuous updates have improved UI, stability, and added features such as "Always highlight" mode and expanded color options, making it a versatile tool for studying, research, and work online.

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By:

VinC

Users:

50,000+

Rating:

3.36

(72) 0.03

Version:

2.11.1 Last updated: 2023-02-18

Creation date:

2019-10-31

Risk:

Permissions:

activeTab
storage
contextMenus
scripting

Host permissions:

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

Size:

114.69K

Email:

vi*****@gmail.com

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 3,730 ▼ 1

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#2868 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 4

#22 in contain keyword 10

#57 in options keyword 20 ▼ 2

#96 in change color keyword 15 ▼ 2

#141 in update keyword 18 ▼ 4

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Multi Highlight (v2.11.1)

10,707+ 3.90

(14)

User reviews

Users appreciate Multi Highlight for its ability to highlight multiple terms with distinct colors and its ease of use, making content scanning faster. However, multiple reviews mention persistent issues: the extension often stops working or loses data, has limited support in textboxes and rich text areas, causes browser performance problems, and has flaws in copying highlights to other apps. Despite its usefulness, these bugs and limitations affect the overall experience and reliability.

Pros

Useful for highlighting multiple terms with different colors, enhancing visual overview.
Easy to use with a clean interface.
Effective in quickly searching and highlighting multiple keywords on a page.
Has aesthetic visual improvements for highlighted text.
Generally works well when functioning, improving productivity in dashboards and reading tasks.

Cons

Frequently stops working or becomes disabled after some use, requiring reinstall or refresh.
Does not support highlighting text within textboxes, forms, or rich text editors, limiting its usability.
Causes performance issues on some pages, including high CPU usage, page crashes, or unresponsiveness, especially on pages with complex content or long usage.
Issues with copying highlighted text to other applications without retaining highlight colors due to the use of non-standard HTML tags.
Add keyword function via context menu often does not work as expected.

Recent reviews

On Vivaldi, 7.3.3635.14 (Stable channel) (x86_64), mac 12.7.6. - new install of the extension, unfortunately could not get the extension to work after a few minutes trying.

Jim Knizer, 2025-05-18

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Chuma, 2025-04-26

The highlighter doesn't work.

Natalie B, 2025-03-26

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Multi Highlight requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood

Multi Highlight has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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