Highlight

Name: Highlight
Rating: 4.0541 (37 reviews)
Author: Weave-Trix

Highlight text on websites by toggling the highlighter extension or keyboard shortcut. Saves highlights on your device for future references.

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Highlight is a practical Chrome extension designed to let users effortlessly highlight text on any website. Users can activate the highlighter cursor via the Ctrl + A shortcut or by toggling the extension popup. Once enabled, simply select phrases to highlight, which are then saved directly to your device for future reference.

The extension offers five preset highlight colors to choose from, enabling personalization for better organization. All saved highlights can be managed conveniently through the popup interface—copy, delete, or switch colors with ease. Additionally, hovering over highlighted text reveals a quick menu for immediate actions, including deletion, color switching, or copying. Highlight improves web browsing and research by streamlining text annotation and management.

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Version:

4.0.3 Last updated: 2022-07-06

Version code:

5427804

Creation date:

2022-07-06

Risk:

Permissions:

contextMenus
scripting
storage
activeTab
<all_urls>

Size:

4.69MB

Email:

ma*****@gmail.com

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Browser Add-ons

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 1,274 ▼ 4

Other rankings

#41 in Bookmarks

#6 in delight keyword 1

#7 in highlighter keyword 49

#13 in flight keyword 27 ▼ 1

#32 in phrase keyword 5 ▼ 2

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User reviews

Pros

Works well and does its job effectively
Better than other highlighter extensions for Firefox
Easy to use with a simple shortcut (Alt+A) to highlight text
Does not mess up the arrangement of page elements
Allows for highlighting without needing to reload the page often

Cons

Loses highlights after page reload
No option to catalog or label highlights for easier searching
Issues with conflicting keyboard shortcuts (Alt+A and Ctrl+A)
Lack of support for highlighting in PDF viewers
Errors loading highlights requiring page refresh

Recent reviews

by 远离*****, 2025-04-08

by De*****, 2025-03-16

Works well, does the job! I've been using it on Chrome for ages but recently switched over to a Firefox browser. Thanks for the great app! One caveat, though, that I would be really grateful if you could fix is: When using the shortcut ALT + A, after highlighting the text, the mouse cursor no longer changes to the "I-beam" (the text selection cursor) when hovering over text. Instead, it stays as the regular pointer, and I have to reload the page to fix it, which can be a bit annoying.

by Cr*****, 2025-03-16

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Extension safety

Risk impact

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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

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Highlight has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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