Reviews for Word Highlighter
Word Highlighter by ainzzorl
14 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by 天灭中共退党团队保平安, 2 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 退出党团队远离中共邪教, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by otus, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Rudolph, 2 years agoVery useful for me, I use it literally everyday.
It would be preferable to me if you could add/edit a description to a word after you highlight it (on hover), instead of having to open the extension from toolbar every time. But otherwise, it is great. - Rated 5 out of 5by Gavan, 3 years agoAmazing little extension. My only issue is I'd like to be able to clear all the words from a group instead of deleting each word individually.
I tried deleting the group to clear the words, but it moved all the words into the default group instead, which I use for something else. - Rated 5 out of 5by E.Critic, 3 years agoty for this extension.
update: please allow us to export 'groups'. Exporting just the words doesn't do enough.
tyvm - Rated 5 out of 5by Odin2, 4 years agoI sometimes can't put my finger on a word I want to use, and when that happens [and I've recalled the word] I enter it into Word Highlighter; problem solved! This excellent add-on has been made better with a new backup facility.
The one (minor) flaw is the lack of the ability to turn the highlighting off. Ideally, it could be turned off for a particular website. But it's great as it is.Developer response
posted 4 years agoThanks for the feedback!
Disabling highlighting on some websites would be a nice addition. We'll add it, but I can't say how soon. Tracking item for the reference: https://github.com/ainzzorl/wordhighlighter/issues/86
Update (August 22, 2021) - you can now disable highlighting on specific pages for all words or for selected groups. See "Don't highlight on these pages" and "Except on these pages" under "Settings" and "Groups" tabs. - Rated 5 out of 5by cmustudentx0001, 5 years agoThanks for the add-on.
It would be nicer if we can use hotkey to highlight the text. Also I wish we can have more color options. Thanks again~Developer response
posted 4 years agoSorry for the very late reply. Now you can change the color under in Settings.
I'm not quite sure about a hotkey to highlight the text - doesn't it highlight automatically when a page is loaded? - Rated 5 out of 5by Tutenstein, 6 years agoThis add-on is just plain amazing. One thing great about this extension is that it works with Firefox Android too. Is there any way this add-on can highlight symbols like quotation marks, hash tag, question marks etc? If you can add such functionality I would be very grateful.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoThanks for the feedback!
No, it can't highlight non-alphanumerical symbols at the moment, unfortunately. I'll consider fixing it in the next release, but I don't know when and if it will happen - there are no plans to make changes to the addon at the moment. - Rated 5 out of 5by kringlur, 7 years agoWorks great in general, a good replacement for the now-dead "Vocabulary Highlighter" add-on which I was using before. I had one problem in that I tried to import 2,500 words and they all appear in the word list but on every page only 5-10 are highlighted. I don't know if this is my fault or a fault in the add-on. I have some suggestions:
1. You should be able to import/export your wordlist via a spreadsheet file or something similar. I'm gathering words to make my own dictionary, so being able to easily export and import all my words is very important. Right now you can highlight and copy-paste your wordlist from the add-on into a spreadsheet (thanks so much!!), but you can't import from a spreadsheet.
2. It would be nice if you could change the highlight color. I use another add-on (for people with bad eyesight) that changes all pages to black with white text, but reading white text with yellow highlight is really hard. Other people might want pink highlight for nouns, green highlight for verbs or suffixes, things like that. To other readers: if that option never happens, you can change the browser's highlight colour yourself using Stylish and some CSS.
3. When you first add a word via the right-click (context) menu, you should be able to add the definition at the same time. Right now it adds the word but the definition is blank so you have to immediately click on the add-on icon, click edit for the most recent word and then add the definition. Also right now it's hard to edit words you've already added that have wrong definitions, it would be better if you could right-click on the word on the page and edit it, or type it into a searchbar inside the add-on and it will find the one to edit for you.
4. It would be nice if you could claim one entry was the same as another entry so you didn't have to type the definition in a second time. Ex. "aqua" and "water" would both have the same definition as "water". This is for adding in things like abbreviations, common spelling mistakes, dialectal or historical versions of a word, etc. For example, I'm learning a language with no set spelling system, so the same word is spelled 10 different ways and I have to find and copy-paste the definition every time I find a new spelling! - Rated 5 out of 5by David Maisonave, 7 years agoUpdating my review.....
This extension does a great job in highlighting multiple keywords in ALL pages.
So far, this is the only multi-page keyword highlighter I've seen for firefox 57+.
It has a great user interface, which is very intuitive.
You can use it as a multi-page keyword highlighter, and you can use it to refresh your memory for definitions of keywords, acronyms, or phrases.
Programmers, Engineers, and Military personal all have to deal with too many acronyms, and it's tough memorizing them all.
By using this add-on to create a list of keywords with their definitions, the user can hover the mouse over a predefined word and get a popup text with the definition.
It's great for programmers learning a new programming language, or those have have to dabble in multiple programming languages.
It's a good tool for anyone learning something new in general.
For example, I'm currently learning 3D Printing and CAD, which have many new terms. I'll read the definition of a new term, and then I don't see again until 2-4 weeks later. By then, I may not remember the exact meaning.
With this tool, every time I see a new term, I can add it to the list with the definition, and the next time the word comes up, I can use the tooltip to quickly get the definition.
Once I feel familiar with the term, I can easily deleted out of the list.
This tool is great as-is (5-stars), but I have some recommendations:
1. Add shortcut key to enable and disable highlighting.
2. Add functionality to include multiple words in one item. Use comma separation to distinguish each word.
3. Add feature to group multiple keywords and definitions, and include ability to enable and disable each group. Let user be able to customize highlight color for each group.
4. Add ability to have temporary keyword(s), which apply to all tabs. This can be done with existing GUI, by just letting the user enter the keywords in existing field, but not clicking the "Add" button. Maybe add an additional button "Apply to Newly Loaded Pages". With this change, I would also rename the "Add" button to "Save".
5. Let user customize color for each word.
6. Instead of having "Strict Match" option, break it down to two options (case match and whole word). Also consider having start of word and end of word option. Recommend using a combo box for start-word, end-word, and whole-word. The just have a switch for case match.
7. Have option to automatically apply different highlight colors to each keyword.
8. Add option to remove confirmation when deleting keywords.Developer response
posted 7 years agoThanks for the feedback, David.
The intended use-case behind this extension is like this (clearly not explained very well in the description):
- You learn a new word. You are afraid you will forget the word unless you see or use it once in a while.
- You add the word to the list.
- The word is highlighted every time you encounter it while browsing the internet, and you get notified of it. It is supposed to reinforce the stickiness of the word.
- You check "History" tab (very recent feature) to find out which words in your list you encounter most often.
This is why you may need the extension even if you know the description of the word.
Thanks