# Highlighter + Notes

> Add Highlights and Notes to a Web Page

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `highlighter-notes`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Prateek
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 6,619
- **Weekly downloads:** 91
- **Rating:** 3.98 / 5 (113 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Last updated:** 2020-05-27
- **First published:** 2020-05-27
- **Size:** 772 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/highlighter-notes/)

## Description

Enhance your web browsing experience with the **Highlighter + Notes** Chrome extension. Effortlessly highlight important text in up to five customizable colors, making it easy to organize and prioritize information on any web page. Your highlights remain saved so you can revisit your marked content anytime.

Additionally, take quick notes within the extension to complement your highlights, with both notes and highlights persisting as you return to the page. Use the convenient popup interface or handy keyboard shortcuts (Alt + Shift + J to toggle highlighter, Alt + Shift + K to toggle eraser) to work efficiently without interrupting your reading flow. Note that some websites may restrict highlighting due to their structure.

## Rankings

- #999 — Overall
- #140 — Other extensions
- #4 — highlighter
- #7 — linotes
- #8 — delight
- #8 — note

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `tabs`
- `http://*/`
- `https://*/`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

User feedback largely notes reliability problems: highlights and notes frequently fail to save or persist across sessions, including on web pages. PDF highlighting is problematic or unsupported. A few users feel the latest release regressed compared with earlier versions and express a desire to revert to a previous build, while a minority report it works as advertised and without requiring an account. Overall, persistence and cross-format support are the dominant concerns.

### Pros

- Works as advertised / does what it's supposed to do.
- No account or personal information required to use.
- Easy to install and works on initial use.
- Some users report it does exactly what it promises.

### Cons

- Highlights and notes do not save reliably, with data lost after refresh or closing the browser.
- Does not work on PDFs; highlights do not appear on PDF pages.
- Latest version regression; users want to rollback to the previous version and miss features from older releases.

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