Quick Text Highlighter

Boost your reading efficiency and vocabulary tracking with high-performance text highlighting.

This extension automatically finds and highlights your defined list of words or phrases on every web page you visit. Whether you are learning a new language, researching specific topics, or simply need to track keywords, this tool makes them stand out instantly without slowing down your browser.

# Key Features

🖱️ Easy List Management:
- Add: Select any text on a page to see a tooltip, then click "Add to List".
- Replace: Quickly replace your entire list with the selected text.
- Remove: Select an already highlighted word and press the "Remove from List" button.

🔍️ Auto-highlight Search Queries in search engines: Automatically detects keywords from search engine URLs (Google, YouTube, Yahoo, TikTok, X) and highlights them instantly.

🛠️ Floating Tooltip: The action tooltip appears near your selection. You can drag and drop it to a preferred position, and it remembers where you left it.

🚫 Smart Exclusions:
- URL Exclusion: Prevent highlighting on specific websites.
- Word Exclusion: Define specific words to ignore, even if they match patterns.

📋 Clipboard Integration: Use keyboard shortcuts to replace or add words directly from your clipboard content.

🔄 Sync Support: Your word lists and settings are saved via Chrome Storage Sync, keeping your data consistent across all your devices.

🔦ON/OFF Toggle: Quickly enable or disable highlighting with a single click via drop-down menu or keyboard shortcut and the status is shown on the badge of the extension icon.

# How to Use

- Highlighting Words: Simply select text on any webpage. A tooltip will appear. Click "Add to List" to start highlighting that word everywhere.
- Removing Words: Select a word that is currently highlighted. The tooltip will show a red "Remove from List" button. Click it to stop highlighting that word.
- Managing Lists: Click the extension icon to open the popup. Here you can manually edit your Word List, manage Excluded URLs, and toggle the extension ON/OFF.
Moving the Tooltip: If the tooltip is in your way, simply drag it by the side padding to a new location.
- Clipboard: You can add or replace words to highlight from text in the clipboard using keyboard shortcuts
- Switch On/Off: You can toggle highlighing using keyboard shortcus or drop-down menu.

# Privacy

This extension processes text locally within your browser to apply highlights. Your browsing data is not sent to any external servers.