# Multiple Search and Highlight

> Highlight multiple words separated by comma, space or arbitrary separator with regular expression support

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `multiple-highlight`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Brian
- **Category:** web-development,search-tools
- **Daily users:** 1,132
- **Weekly downloads:** 15
- **Rating:** 4.30 / 5 (46 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.6.3
- **Last updated:** 2025-09-13
- **First published:** 2019-11-28
- **Size:** 103 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/multiple-highlight/)
- **Website:** [https://webextension.org/listing/multiple-highlight.html](https://webextension.org/listing/multiple-highlight.html)

## Description

**Multiple Search and Highlight** is a versatile Chrome extension designed to enhance your text search experience. It allows you to highlight multiple words or phrases simultaneously using customizable separators such as commas, spaces, or any regular expression. Its powerful features include support for multiple highlighters, different splitter characters, and text formatting like underline and bold, making it highly adaptable for any use case.

The extension operates entirely offline, protecting your privacy by avoiding server-side interactions. Its interface resembles the browser's default find tool and offers intuitive navigation through search terms using the Enter and Shift + Enter keys. Additionally, it supports automatic query search per URL and annotates pages with distinct colors for easy identification, all while consuming zero resources when inactive.

## Rankings

- #3,075 — Overall
- #337 — Web Development
- #358 — Search Tools
- #25 — highlighter
- #51 — delight
- #70 — flight

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `activeTab`
- `scripting`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users praise Multiple Search and Highlight for its simplicity, effective multi-term highlighting, and no-permission requirement. Common issues include highlights disappearing when the popup loses focus or is closed, lack of a persistent search interface, and absence of keyboard shortcuts. Users also request features like dark mode and better handling of highlights during scrolling or tab changes. Overall, it is considered powerful but would benefit from improvements to usability and customization.

### Pros

- Simple and easy to use interface.
- Effectively highlights all occurrences of searched terms on a page.
- Does not require any special permissions, enhancing user trust.
- Provides customization options in settings like highlight colors and keeping highlights after closing the popup.
- Works well across different browsers, notably Chrome and Firefox.

### Cons

- Search highlights disappear when clicking outside the popup or closing the search window.
- Lacks a persistent search bar that remains open until manually closed.
- No dark mode available.
- No keyboard shortcuts implemented to quickly invoke or manage searches.
- Highlighting sometimes disappears when scrolling or switching tabs.

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