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Selection Highlighter by neaumusic

Highlight occurrences of selected text, with or without a keypress.

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Highlight occurrences of selected text, with or without a keypress.

- 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

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

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

https://github.com/neaumusic/selection-highlighter
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Version
3.3.0
Size
493.46 KB
Last updated
a month ago (Jul 10, 2025)
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  • user scripts
  • word counter
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