# Marks: Text Highlighter

> Extension to select text on web pages and mark with colors

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `marks-text-highlighter`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Myoungdo Park
- **Category:** bookmarks
- **Daily users:** 367
- **Weekly downloads:** 26
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (9 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.10.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-31
- **First published:** 2025-07-02
- **Size:** 137 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/marks-text-highlighter/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/cuspymd/text-highlighter](https://github.com/cuspymd/text-highlighter)

## Description

Marks: Text Highlighter helps readers, researchers, and students capture key ideas on any web page. Select text, apply a color with a single click, and keep highlights tied to each URL so they reappear on revisit.

### Key features
- On-page control UI to apply color in one click
- Multi-color system with default colors and custom palettes
- Right-click and keyboard shortcuts for fast actions
- Page-based organization: highlights stay with the URL
- Minimap navigation for quick scanning

### Privacy and storage
- Local-first storage using storage.local
- Optional cross-device sync via storage.sync when available
- No backend, no analytics, no account required

## Rankings

- #6,024 — Overall
- #202 — Bookmarks
- #15 — highlighter
- #64 — delight
- #84 — flight
- #126 — speech to text

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `contextMenus`
- `activeTab`
- `tabs`
- `alarms`

### Host permissions

- `https://text-highlighter-sync.cuspymd.workers.dev/*`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate 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 was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.

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