What is Highlighter?

Highlighter is a Chrome extension developed by Jérôme Parent-Lévesque, and its main feature is "Highlight text on websites with a simple right-click or keyboard shortcut. Saves highlights on your device.".

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Download Highlighter Extension CRX File

Download Highlighter extension files in crx format, manually install Chrome extensions in the browser, or share the crx files with friends to easily install Chrome extensions.

Extension Usage Instructions

Easiest way to highlight text on any webpage! Simply select text, then right click it to select the "Highlight" option. Alternatively, use the default keyboard shortcut 'Alt+H' (^H on Mac).

All highlighted texts are saved so that your highlights are not lost when exiting a page! Simply re-opening that page will bring back all the highlights. NOTE: This does not work on very dynamic webpages like Facebook and most email clients. Support for these might be added in the future.

➪ View and copy all highlights on a page
➪ Copy all your highlights to your clipboard easily.
➪ Select existing highlights with a simple click to either delete them or to copy their content.
➪ Customize your highlight colors (and text color).
➪ Change the keyboard shortcut through Chrome settings at 'chrome://extensions/shortcuts'.

The code for this project is fully open-source and is available on GitHub:
https://github.com/jeromepl/highlighter
Help this project by reporting issues and contributing there!

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Disclaimer: This extension uses Google Analytics to gather non-personal user information and usage information. We DO NOT collect browsing information such as the contents of highlights or accessed URLs. For more information, consult our privacy policy at the link below.

The privacy policy for this extension can be found here: https://github.com/jeromepl/highlighter/blob/master/privacy_policy.md

Extension Basic Information

Name	Highlighter
ID	fdfcjfoifbjplmificlkdfneafllkgmn
Official URL	https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/highlighter/fdfcjfoifbjplmificlkdfneafllkgmn
Description	Highlight text on websites with a simple right-click or keyboard shortcut. Saves highlights on your device.
File Size	89.5 KB
Installation Count	152,329
Current Version	4.0.5
Last Updated	2023-06-26
Publish Date	2019-10-27
Rating	3.79/5 Total 235 Ratings
Developer	Jérôme Parent-Lévesque
Email	[email protected]
Payment Type	free
Help Page URL	https://github.com/jeromepl/highlighter/issues
Supported Languages	en
manifest.json
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