# Highlight

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

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/highlight-by-trix](https://chrome-stats.com/d/highlight-by-trix)

## Overview

- **ID:** `highlight-by-trix`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Weave-Trix
- **Category:** bookmarks
- **Daily users:** 4,667
- **Weekly downloads:** 145
- **Rating:** 3.92 / 5 (53 ratings)
- **Version:** 4.0.3
- **Last updated:** 2022-07-06
- **First published:** 2022-07-06
- **Size:** 4.69 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-12
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/highlight-by-trix/)

## Description

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.

## Rankings

- #1,263 — Overall
- #38 — Bookmarks
- #6 — delight
- #7 — highlighter
- #12 — flight
- #42 — phrase

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`
- `scripting`
- `storage`
- `activeTab`
- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## 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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## Review summary

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).

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