Yawas Web Highlighter: Highlight and Comment Web Pages
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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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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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
User 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
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Firefox 124.0.1 (64-bit) on Windows nothing happens. Neither right clicking the highlighted text nor using the shortcuts. Bummer.