Web Highlighter
Extension Actions
Highlight text on web pages with multiple colors. Highlights persist across sessions and sync between Chrome and Edge.
🎨 WEB HIGHLIGHTER - Your Personal Text Marker for the Web
Transform your web browsing experience with Web Highlighter, the ultimate tool for marking, organizing, and remembering important information across the internet.
✨ KEY FEATURES
📌 Multi-Color Highlighting
- Choose from 5 vibrant colors: Yellow, Green, Blue, Pink, and Orange
- Instantly highlight any text on any webpage
- Perfect for categorizing different types of information
⚡ Quick & Easy to Use
- Select text and click a color - that's it!
- Keyboard shortcuts for lightning-fast highlighting
- Right-click context menu for instant access
- Clean, intuitive popup interface
💾 Automatic Saving
- All highlights are saved automatically
- Persistent across browser sessions
- Survives page refreshes and browser restarts
- Never lose your important notes again
🔄 Cross-Device Sync
- Seamlessly sync highlights across all your devices
- Works with Chrome Sync - no account needed
- Access your highlights on desktop, laptop, and more
- Your research follows you everywhere
🎯 Smart Features
- Works on dynamic websites (Reddit, news sites, blogs)
- Handles single-page applications (SPAs)
- Intelligent text matching for reliable restoration
- Supports multiple highlights per page
📊 Highlight Management
- View all highlights in a centralized summary page
- See highlight counts per website
- Filter highlights by URL or text content
- Delete individual highlights or clear all at once
- Expandable lists for easy navigation
🔒 Privacy First
- No data collection - zero tracking
- All data stored locally in your browser
- No external servers or third-party services
- Open source and transparent
⌨️ KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
- Ctrl+Shift+H - Highlight with Yellow
- Ctrl+Shift+G - Highlight with Green
- Ctrl+Shift+B - Highlight with Blue
- Ctrl+Shift+R - Remove Highlight
🎓 PERFECT FOR
- Students taking online courses
- Researchers gathering information
- Professionals reading documentation
- Anyone who reads articles online
- Book lovers reading web novels
- Language learners studying content
🌐 WORKS EVERYWHERE
- News websites and blogs
- Documentation and wikis
- Reddit and social media
- Educational platforms
- Research papers and articles
- Any text-based website
🚀 HOW IT WORKS
1. Install the extension
2. Navigate to any webpage
3. Select the text you want to highlight
4. Click the extension icon and choose a color
5. Your highlight is saved automatically
6. Refresh the page - highlights are restored!
💡 USE CASES
📚 Research & Study
Highlight key points in articles, mark important definitions, and color-code different topics for better organization.
📖 Reading & Learning
Mark interesting passages, save quotes, and create visual bookmarks in long-form content.
💼 Professional Work
Highlight important information in documentation, mark action items in emails, and organize research materials.
🔍 Information Gathering
Collect and categorize information from multiple sources with color-coded highlights.
🎨 TECHNICAL DETAILS
- Built with modern JavaScript
- Uses Chrome Storage API for data persistence
- Implements efficient DOM manipulation
- Supports dynamic content loading
- Optimized for performance
- No external dependencies
🆕 RECENT UPDATES
- Fixed highlight restoration on first page load
- Added support for single-page applications
- Improved text search algorithm
- Enhanced filter functionality
- Better handling of dynamic content
- Performance optimizations
⭐ WHY CHOOSE WEB HIGHLIGHTER?
Unlike other highlighting tools, Web Highlighter is:
- Completely free with no premium features
- Privacy-focused with zero data collection
- Lightweight and fast
- Works on all websites
- Regularly updated and maintained
- Simple yet powerful
📞 SUPPORT & FEEDBACK
We're committed to making Web Highlighter the best highlighting tool available. If you encounter any issues or have suggestions for improvements, please reach out through the Chrome Web Store support page.
🌟 RATE & REVIEW
If you find Web Highlighter useful, please consider leaving a 5-star review! Your feedback helps us improve and helps others discover this tool.
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Start highlighting smarter today! Install Web Highlighter and never lose track of important information again.
Made with ❤️ for readers, researchers, and learners everywhere.