Selection Highlighter

Selection Highlighter

Automatically highlight all occurrences of current selection on current page.

What is Selection Highlighter?
Selection Highlighter is a Chrome extension that automatically highlights all occurrences of the current selection on the current page. It also allows you to customize the highlighting color and toggle the feature on/off. Version 0.0.3 includes a new threshold configuration and ignore functionality for the 'style' tag.
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Stats
By: Tao
Users: 107 ▼ -7
Rating: 3.00 (2)
Version: 0.0.3 (Last updated: 2020-07-17)
Creation date: 2020-06-03
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • <all_urls>
  • storage
  • tabs
Size: 99.16K
URLs: Website
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Summary

Selection highlighter will help you automatically highlight all occurrences of current selection on current page, also works for shadow DOM pages. The extension also allow you to toggle on/off the feature from options page, also change the default configurations like highlight color etc

Release notes:

v0.0.3:

  • Allow config the threshold to ignore selection when apply highlighting
  • Always ignore style tag when highlighting, avoid messing up the page
User reviews
One of the extensions that was very useful. Please include Persian language support for it. thank you.
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Safety
Risk impact

Selection Highlighter is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Selection Highlighter if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

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

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