# UnHighlight

> Strips ?highlight=... from URLs, uncluttering documentation pages from highlights.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `unhighlight`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Justin Bassett
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.2
- **Last updated:** 2021-10-21
- **First published:** 2021-01-03
- **Size:** 8.61 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/unhighlight/)

## Description

UnHighlight is an experimental Firefox add-on that removes ?highlight=... from URLs, making documentation pages cleaner and less cluttered. It is particularly useful for Python docs, CMake's docs, and Sphinx docs.

## Rankings

- #84,081 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- 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/unhighlight)