Yawas Web Highlighter

Highlight and comment web pages. Your highlights are stored in your browser bookmarks, automatically recreated when you revisit a web page.
What is Yawas Web Highlighter?
Yawas Web Highlighter is a robust Firefox add-on for bookmarking, highlighting, and commenting on web content. This tool allows users to select text and apply color highlights that get stored directly within browser bookmarks. Hence, every time a bookmarked page is revisited, the previously made highlights are automatically recreated. Furthermore, users can add contextually relevant notes or comments on highlighted portions for an enriched web browsing and reading experience.
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Add-on stats

Users: 619 ▼ -5
Rating: 3.38 (32)
Version: 7.3.9 (Last updated: 2022-02-21)
Creation date: 2017-12-22
Weekly download count: 14
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • https://www.google.com/bookmarks/*
  • storage
  • contextMenus
  • tabs
  • bookmarks
Size: 58.24K
URLs: Website

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# 3983
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Yawas (v7.4.0)
3.35 (195) 10,000
Yawas (v7.3.2)
2.10 (8) 1,704
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Add-on summary

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Highlight and comment web pages. Stored in Firefox bookmarks (synchronized) and recreated automatically when you revisit a page

Yawas lets you highlight web pages in multiple colors.

Your highlights are stored inside your browser bookmarks. Yawas automatically recreates the highlights when you reopen web pages.

All functions are available from the context-menu. To highlight, simply select some text and choose the color from the context menu. To add a note or comment, select or hover over the highlight and pick "Add Note". To recolor or delete a highlight, select some of its text and choose another color or "Delete" from the context-menu.

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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
  • Saves highlights as searchable bookmarks
  • Stores highlighted text even if the page changes or disappears
  • Backs up and shares highlights with Firefox synchronization
Cons
  • High CPU usage
  • Does not work well with PDFs
  • Problems with Google Bookmarks and multiple Google accounts
Most mentioned
  • Does not work with PDFs
  • Google Bookmarks integration
  • High CPU usage
Recent reviews
Thanks for the follow up question. Today I reinstalled Yawas, a day later. Now Yawas works on web pages. Probably one of the other numerous extensions I had installed was an issue. IDK. I disabled a bunch of them before reinstalling Yawas. Anyhow is now a partial win. Works on web pages but not PDFs read by Firefox. Thx x2 --- Firefox 124.0.1 (64-bit) on Windows nothing happens. Neither right clicking the highlighted text nor using the shortcuts. Bummer.
by Andre Bell, 2024-03-29
Firefox 124.0.1 (64-bit) on Windows nothing happens. Neither right clicking the highlighted text nor using the shortcuts. Bummer.
by Andre Bell, 2024-03-29
by Majsek, 2024-01-24
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

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

Risk likelihood

Yawas Web Highlighter has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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