# Highbrighter

> Highbrighter to mark text on a site, add notes and navigate them through context menu. All the changes to a page can be saved and then loaded

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/highbrighter](https://chrome-stats.com/d/highbrighter)

## Overview

- **ID:** `highbrighter`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Jahn08
- **Category:** appearance,tabs
- **Daily users:** 26
- **Rating:** 4.22 / 5 (9 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.2.1
- **Last updated:** 2020-06-06
- **First published:** 2019-08-13
- **Size:** 113 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-25
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/highbrighter/)

## Description

Highbrighter is a Firefox Add-On that allows you to mark text on a site, add notes, and navigate them through the context menu. You can save and load changes made to a page, set preferences for marking text, categorize pages, use keyboard shortcuts, import and export stored pages, and more.

## Rankings

- #21,996 — Overall
- #148 — highlighter

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `contextMenus`
- `storage`
- `unlimitedStorage`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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