Highlight

Name: Highlight
Rating: 3.9038 (52 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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Features & Capabilities

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:

Content scripts matches:

<all_urls>

Size:

4.69MB

Email:

ma*****@gmail.com

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-18

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Ranking

# 1,250 ▼ 11

Other rankings

#38 in Bookmarks

#7 in delight keyword 3

#7 in highlighter keyword 51

#12 in flight keyword 33

#35 in phrase keyword 11

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Developed by:

Weave-Trix

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/highlight-by-trix/

Email:

ma*****@gmail.com

User Reviews

Highlight is praised for being easy to use, reliable, and providing a clear highlighting workflow with helpful UX cues and a convenient Alt+A shortcut. However, multiple reviews flag issues with dark-mode readability, repeated errors loading highlights, and data loss after reloads or Firefox resets. ALT+A cursor toggling bugs and inconsistent behavior are noted. Users also seek backup/export/import capabilities and more color options to improve contrast, especially on dark backgrounds.

Pros

Easy to use and user-friendly.
Reliable and effective highlighting; works well across pages.
Shows cursor indicator when in highlighter mode and preserves page layout.
Supports a keyboard shortcut for quick highlighting (Alt+A).

Cons

Poor visibility on dark themes / dark mode; highlights hard to read.
Recurring error messages: 'There was an error loading your highlights. Please try refreshing'.
Highlights can be lost after page reloads or Firefox resets.
ALT+A toggle/cursor behavior bugs (cursor not switching to I-beam, broken toggle in some Firefox versions).

Recent reviews

by Li*****, 2026-05-26

I love this but I think something is wrong because I can't find the option to delete highlights?? please, I need to be able to make mistakes 😂 EDIT: refreshing the page fixed it but it's not the first time I've had this issue so I think the addon may be slightly unstable at this point. still works I guess!

by hy*****, 2026-05-20

by Po*****, 2026-04-20

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Is Highlight Safe?

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

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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