# Mark My Search

> Highlight words and scroll to them with a button press. Auto-highlight your search keywords or define Keyword Lists for automation, and use regex for advanced searching.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/mark-my-search](https://chrome-stats.com/d/mark-my-search)

## Overview

- **ID:** `mark-my-search`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** ator-dev
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,search-tools
- **Daily users:** 116
- **Weekly downloads:** 3
- **Rating:** 4.67 / 5 (21 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.15.0
- **Last updated:** 2025-01-15
- **First published:** 2022-04-25
- **Size:** 133 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/mark-my-search/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/searchmarkers/mark-my-search/issues](https://github.com/searchmarkers/mark-my-search/issues)

## Description

Mark My Search is a powerful, user-friendly Chrome extension designed to enhance your online search experience by automatically highlighting keywords on any webpage. It supports automatic detection and highlighting of search queries across major search engines including Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Reddit. The extension features a compact toolbar for easy keyword editing, keyboard shortcuts for quick navigation, and customizable matching options like case sensitivity, whole word matching, stemming, and regular expressions. Visual scroll bar markers help you locate keywords quickly, while allowing you to automate keyword lists for improved productivity.

Privacy is a top priority; no personal data is collected or stored. Mark My Search is free, open source, and fully accessible both by mouse and keyboard. It also offers options to disable or customize automatic highlighting for enhanced usability. Ideal for users seeking more effective and efficient text finding across the web.

## Rankings

- #10,934 — Overall
- #130 — define
- #138 — marker
- #165 — search box
- #167 — search bar
- #187 — research

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `scripting`
- `storage`
- `search`
- `contextMenus`

### Host permissions

- `*://*/*`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## 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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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/mark-my-search)