Reviews for HighlightAll
HighlightAll by Jerome Goudey
Review by Firefox user 5667353
Rated 1 out of 5
by Firefox user 5667353, 6 years agoThis could be a very useful tool if it wasn't so erratic. It is very hard to use. Highlight a word and the menu doesn't always come up or if it does, either the menu disappears before you can click on it or the highlighted text loses its highlight Nor when a word ts highlighted, does it highlight every instant of the word. If a mistake is made and you try to delete it, it removes all highlighting as well as the mistake and then the extension will not work at all. It would be helpful if there was a drp down menu on the right click. All in all, it is a very frustrating tool.
One serious problem is that if a one or two syllable word is highlighted and the same syllables appear in three or more syllable words, the one or two syllables are highlighted in words with more syllables. Example: highlight the word "sane" and the letters will be also highlighted in the word "insane."
Another problem is that if by mistake not every letter is selected in a word that is highlighted and the user later tries to correct this by selecting either the entire word or the missing letter or letters and highlight them, HIGHLIGHT ALL will highlight the missing letter(s) and split the word into two parts while highlighting all of them.
In response to an earlier comment herein about the difficulty of deleting an erroneous highlight without removing all the highlighting in the document, the app author suggested clicking on the erroneous highlight and deleting it. It doesn't work and remains a serious defect.
One serious problem is that if a one or two syllable word is highlighted and the same syllables appear in three or more syllable words, the one or two syllables are highlighted in words with more syllables. Example: highlight the word "sane" and the letters will be also highlighted in the word "insane."
Another problem is that if by mistake not every letter is selected in a word that is highlighted and the user later tries to correct this by selecting either the entire word or the missing letter or letters and highlight them, HIGHLIGHT ALL will highlight the missing letter(s) and split the word into two parts while highlighting all of them.
In response to an earlier comment herein about the difficulty of deleting an erroneous highlight without removing all the highlighting in the document, the app author suggested clicking on the erroneous highlight and deleting it. It doesn't work and remains a serious defect.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoNative mode is broken due to a bug since Firefox 71, as you can read in the about section.
In custom mode, if you are using multiple highlight colors, and after highlighting a series of words with different colors you want to remove one of them, just right-click on any occurrence *of this color* and select "Remove highlighting" (instead of right-clicking at a random location in the page). For any other issue that is not encountered. For other issues, that are not encountered by the majority of HightlightAll users, please use my contact page to explain how they occur and provide details so that they can be fixed.
In custom mode, if you are using multiple highlight colors, and after highlighting a series of words with different colors you want to remove one of them, just right-click on any occurrence *of this color* and select "Remove highlighting" (instead of right-clicking at a random location in the page). For any other issue that is not encountered. For other issues, that are not encountered by the majority of HightlightAll users, please use my contact page to explain how they occur and provide details so that they can be fixed.
125 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Meowstic, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Krumann, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by harl windwolf, 2 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18380136, 2 years agoI used it for several months, worked great. Until yesterday when I found out it blocks my access to teams website. It looks like, because of the way it's implemented, teams website detects it and because of the security policies in place, it doesn't load my teams page. Once I disable this particular extension, I can access my account.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17434746, 2 years agoGreat! Would love to be able to simply search with cmd+F and highlight all instances. At present seems limited to clicking, but I may be overlooking the function. Still nice but but really need cmd+F to find all without having to click so if there's an app for this pls lmk!
- Rated 5 out of 5by ifulou, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14408685, 3 years agoyes! finally found this extension. my online life will be so much better!
- Rated 1 out of 5by zgorg, 3 years agocan you PLEAZE add a trim end to delete the last space when double clicking on a word. Firefox add by default a space to the selection if there is one after.
So e.g : hello bob double clicking hello will select "hello " and so in hello=bob "hello" won't be selected.
Add an option automatically delete last space.
Other thing: on github pages the addon doesn't work.
I will change my note after the first fix.thanks - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14530486, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Th3Kay242, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by karikomi1, 3 years agoIt "just works". This adds a common IDE feature to firefox that comes in really handy for browsing online code.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14033823, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by iG0R, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by bto, 4 years agoNative Mode helps quite a bit to bring back the functionality and speed of the old FindbarTweak addon. Thank you so much for this addon!
One complaint: doesn't work for text inside scripted elements, such as the search bars on google/bing. Ideally I'd be able to select a search term I just used, and see exactly where it matches within the search results below.
One feature I'd really love to see is the option to hook into the Findbar - including the ability to send highlighted text into the Findbar for easier navigation with next/previous, and to allow selecting options such as "Match Case" on the fly.
Again, thanks so much for this excellent extension! - Rated 5 out of 5by CookieM, 4 years agoAnyone who occasionally inspects or reviews code in a browser needs functionality like this.
e.g. double-click on a variable or function and you know how/where it's being used.
Thanks Jerome, great add-on. - Rated 5 out of 5by Davide, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by shine LIN, 4 years agoJumping out of the color selection will cause the selected text to be out of focus, which will make it difficult to drag and drop the selected text to search. Please provide a third option to automatically use the set color in turn instead of jumping out of the color selection.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15523302, 4 years agoIts great add-on, just that after page refresh it resets, only drawback I saw.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Arash Yoosefdoost, 4 years agoGood but not special. I gave 5 stars if it had predefined keywords to highlight similar to this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/multi-keywords-highlighter/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search
- Rated 5 out of 5by UPukaJRm, 4 years agoHighlightAll's select and highlight feature is excellent. The persistent highlight while I scroll around on a web page is just what I wanted since the native FF highlight usually goes away after a few seconds. I use Selection Context Search which creates a pop-up for highlighted text so I do not get the color choice pop-up for HA which is no biggee. I would like a "Display matches count" number on an Add On icon in the top FF bar instead of a lower right pop-up. Overall, an awesome add on!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16940533, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Chris Hayes, 5 years agoDoes exactly what I wanted. As a developer, I found a need for this in the browser.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Schmurtz, 5 years agoTrès bon add-on, serait-il possible d'ajouter la comptabilité avec la mise en évidence des recherches dans la barre de défilement qui est apparue avec Firefox 87 ?
Merci !