Selection Highlighter
Highlight occurrences of selected text, with or without a keypress.
What is Selection Highlighter?
Selection Highlighter is a Firefox add-on that enables you to highlight occurrences of selected text on websites. With configurable options and the ability to match whole words or ignore case, it provides an efficient way to search for keywords in code inspection and document analysis. The add-on works on all sites, including popular platforms like GitHub, StackOverflow, and HackerNews.
Add-on stats
By: neaumusic
Rating: 4.88
(8)
Creation date: 2021-11-15
Weekly download count: 7
Firefox on Android: No
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
- activeTab
- storage
Size: 225.01K
Email: js*****@gmail.com
URLs: Website ,Privacy policy
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Add-on summary
Highlight occurrences of selected text, with or without a keypress.
- No need to press CMD+F
- Maintains current selection
- Open source and configurable options (JavaScript)
- Ensure a "gate" key is pressed
- Match whole word and/or case-insensitive
- Blacklist bad hosts and ancestor HTML nodes
For code inspection and document analysis: search for and find keywords.
Highlight works on all sites, including GitHub, StackOverflow, HackerNews, etc.
User reviews
It's a really good extension, but it doesn't work on words with diacritics on the first or last letter. For instance, the extension won't recognise the other occurrences of "esquimó", "índole", etc.
by Krumann, 2024-11-10
by Egor, 2024-08-01
Add-on safety
Risk impact
Selection Highlighter requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk likelihood
Selection Highlighter has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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