# Web Highlighter

> Highlight text from any webpage and save it with your notes in markdown format that you can later export.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `web-highlighter`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** NextFive
- **Category:** bookmarks
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Weekly downloads:** 2
- **Version:** 1.2
- **Last updated:** 2025-08-02
- **First published:** 2025-07-23
- **Size:** 22 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/web-highlighter/)

## Rankings

- #119,969 — Overall
- #168 — highlighter

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate 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/web-highlighter)