Textmarker

Permanent web text highlighter
What is Textmarker?
"Textmarker" is a Firefox add-on designed for annotating web pages. Users can highlight and save their selected text permanently, maintain their changes in Textmarker history, and even undo or redo their actions. Additionally, it offers customization of mark styles and shortcuts, synchronization of settings and highlights across devices with a Firefox sync account, and a feature to export these settings and highlights. Users can attach notes to highlights, look up selected words on Wikipedia, and choose the highlighted texts to act as bookmarks. Textmarker does not work in built-in PDF-viewers or Reader Mode.
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Add-on stats

Users: 4,162 ▲ 23
Rating: 4.20 (174)
Version: 5.3.3 (Last updated: 2022-12-02)
Creation date: 2013-06-10
Weekly download count: 79
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • <all_urls>
  • storage
  • activeTab
  • tabs
  • notifications
  • menus
  • clipboardWrite
  • webNavigation
Size: 280.15K
URLs: Website

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# 1287 ▼ 2
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Add-on summary

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Stopped working? Some users reported Textmarker stopped working after a Firefox update. Unforntunately neither do we know yet what is causing the issue nor can we reproduce it. For some users it helped to uninstall Textmarker, restart FF, re-install Textmarker - and eventually restart FF again. But other users had to refresh the whole FF profile. If you need to backup your Textmarker data before the uninstall -> here you find how to do that: https://github.com/ufb/Textmarker/issues/84#issuecomment-557044749

Backup your data Please save a backup of your highlights and settings occasionally (you can do so on Textmarker's "Export & Import" page). In the rare case you lost your data due to re-installation just import your backup file

Bug reports, problems, suggestions or feature requests via e-mail at [email protected] or on https://github.com/ufb/Textmarker/issues Feature requests in reviews (especially ones that lower the average rating) will be ignored.

Donations are very welcome - Thank you :)

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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
  • Excellent user interface allowing color customization
  • Effective for webpage annotation in general
  • Highly rated by users as one of the best add-ons for highlighting
  • Continuous development and updates appreciated by users
Cons
  • Not reliable for saving highlights, especially on certain academic database sites
  • Conflicts with Google Docs and Sheets, causing memory issues and potential crashes
  • Does not work on some webpages where other similar tools do function
  • Text color is not visible on dark-themed pages when adding notes
Most mentioned
  • Not reliable for saving highlights
  • Conflicts with Google Docs and Sheets
  • Good interface with color options
  • Highly appreciated by users for functionality
Recent reviews
Simply don't work at all
by Pedro Henrique, 2024-10-12
by igorlogius, 2024-08-12
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Textmarker requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

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

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