Auto Highlight

🟨 Auto Highlight will help you see what's important on the web! ✅ ⚡ Supports RegExp search and many style and highlight options ⭕ 🥷 Hide text by setting font size to zero!
What is Auto Highlight?
Auto Highlight is a fully automatic and easy to use text marker, highlighter, eraser, searcher, and style fixer add-on for Firefox. It supports RegExp search, offers many style and highlight options, and allows you to hide text by setting font size to zero. It also supports advanced search options using regular expressions, synchronization to all your devices, and much more.
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Add-on stats

Rating: 4.44 (54)
Version: 5.3 (Last updated: 2023-11-03)
Creation date: 2020-07-21
Weekly download count: 78
Firefox on Android: Yes
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • contextMenus
  • storage
  • scripting
  • alarms
  • activeTab
  • <all_urls>
Size: 2.02M
URLs: Website

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# 2037 ▲ 2
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Auto Highlight (v5.3)
4.74 (62) 10,000
Auto Highlight (v5.3)
4.80 (8) 5,369
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Add-on summary

Analyze keywords

🟨 Auto Highlight is a fully automatic and easy to use text marker / highlighter / eraser / searcher / style fixer. No need to use search anymore to find important information! 🎉

⭐ TOP FEATURES:

  • highlight keywords like: 1080p, HDR, 4K, x265, HEVC, 5.1
  • hide text - by changing font size to zero or by making it transparent
  • advanced search options using regular expressions (regexp), exact match, ignore diacritics and more
  • change style - background, text size and color
  • automatic synchronization 🔄 to all your devices (using native Firefox Sync.)
  • highlight "Free shipping", "Out of stock" and other important labels
  • doing research about specific topic? Use "Temporal highlight" feature to highlight keywords on every page.

❤ Support independent developer and a Friend of Add-ons:

  • I'm full-time add-on developer and your donation is my only income. There are no ads in my add-ons! ☕ Please support my work by: Thank you! :) Your donation will help me keep this add-on working in future versions of Firefox!

🔒 Privacy Policy: https://github.com/fastaddons/AutoHighlight/blob/master/PRIVACY_POLICY.md

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User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Firefox Browser Add-ons does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Highly customizable for highlighting specific words.
  • Supports regular expressions, enhancing functionality.
  • Works well on various platforms, including Firefox Android.
  • Useful for quickly identifying keywords and relevant content.
  • Effective highlighting and provides visual cues via color markers.
Cons
  • Occasional issues with content alteration on web pages.
  • Highlighting does not work in PDFs, limiting use for research.
  • Problems with highlighting after switching tabs/windows.
  • Syncing data across devices is cumbersome.
  • Users have experienced functionality loss without errors.
Most mentioned
  • Highlighting functionality
  • Customization options
  • Regular expression support
  • PDF highlighting request
  • Cross-platform availability
Recent reviews
please append "Bold, Italic, Underline" with "All Caps"
by 🔥🦊, 2024-09-01
Most of the time it works great, except for occasionally altering parts of the content on web pages.
by Firefox user 17049191, 2024-08-26
by Seän D. Shepherd, 2024-08-22
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Auto Highlight requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Auto Highlight has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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