Persistent Highlighter

A watered-down port of Prostetnic Highlighter

Persistent Highlighter - Your Personal Web Highlighting Tool

Persistent Highlighter is a useful Chrome extension that allows users to highlight text on any webpage. The tool not only allows highlighting, but it also stores the URL and the highlighted text in local storage for future reference. The dual functionality of allowing highlighting and storing information makes this extension an excellent tool for research, studying, or just keeping track of favorite quotes. The extension even allows searching previous highlights by word, facilitating quick access to saved information. Persistent Highlighter currently has some limitations with working on Disqus comments and other similar websites, but efforts are underway to resolve these issues.
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Extension stats

By: n8chz
Users: 558
-20
Rating: 5.00
(6)
Version: 0.0.6 (Last updated: 2016-09-26)
Creation date: 2016-09-25
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • contextMenus
  • activeTab
  • storage
  • unlimitedStorage
Size: 55.38K

Other platforms

Not available on Android
Persistent Highlighter (v0.0.9resigned1)
2.95 (19) 63
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

So far,

highlights the text on the page,

stores url and highlight text as key/value pair in local storage,

re-highlights text passages when we re-visit a URL, and

previous highlights are searchable by word.

Doesn't work on Disqus comments, and some other websites. Working on that...

User reviews

Exactly what I needed!
by Andrew Cole, 2024-08-29

finally an perfect highlighter extension without any useless bookmark fuction
by Oroney, 2023-10-11

Perfect
by Denys Čumak, 2021-11-02
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Persistent Highlighter requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

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

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