What is Selection Highlighter?

Selection Highlighter is a Chrome extension developed by https://neaumusic.com, and its main feature is "Highlight occurrences of selected text, with or without a keypress.".

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Download Selection Highlighter Extension CRX File

Download Selection 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

For code inspection and document analysis: search for and find keywords.

- 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

Highlight works on all sites, including GitHub, StackOverflow, HackerNews, Reddit, etc.

See all code involved:
1. Dev Console -> Sources -> Content Scripts -> Selection Highlighter
2. chrome://extensions -> Selection Highlighter -> Options -> Dev Console -> Sources

https://github.com/neaumusic/selection-highlighter

Extension Basic Information

Name	Selection Highlighter
ID	nepmkgohgoagfgcoegjaggacodcpdibj
Official URL	https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/selection-highlighter/nepmkgohgoagfgcoegjaggacodcpdibj
Description	Highlight occurrences of selected text, with or without a keypress.
File Size	470 KB
Installation Count	8,418
Current Version	3.1.0
Last Updated	2024-01-14
Publish Date	2020-06-07
Rating	4.59/5 Total 78 Ratings
Developer	https://neaumusic.com
Email	[email protected]
Payment Type	free
Extension Website	https://github.com/neaumusic/selection-highlighter
Help Page URL	https://github.com/neaumusic/selection-highlighter/issues
Supported Languages	en
manifest.json
{ "update_url": "https:\/\/clients2.google.com\/service\/update2\/crx", "manifest_version": 3, "name": "Selection Highlighter", "version": "3.1.0", "description": "Highlight occurrences of selected text, with or without a keypress.", "content_scripts": [ { "all_frames": true, "run_at": "document_end", "matches": [ "" ], "js": [ "content_script\/main.js" ] } ], "action": { "default_icon": "images\/icon.png", "default_title": "Selection Highlighter", "default_popup": "popup\/index.html" }, "icons": { "1024": "images\/icon.png" }, "permissions": [ "storage" ] }