
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
- 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
Rated 4.4 by 9 reviewers
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- Access your data for all web sites
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- Version
- 3.3.0
- Size
- 493.46 kB
- Last updated
- a month ago (10 Jul 2025)
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