Highlight specified words on the current web page.

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Version
1.5
Update
September 2, 2024
Size
16.17KiB
Developer
Category
Users
71
Rating
5 ★
Manifest Version
3
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English (United States)
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MultiHighlight Extension

The \"MultiHighlight\" Chrome Extension is a robust and intuitive tool designed to enhance your web browsing experience by enabling you to highlight specific words or phrases on any web page. Ideal for research, reading long articles, or casual browsing, this extension makes it easier to locate and emphasize important text, boosting your productivity and efficiency.

Key Features:
- Customizable Word Highlighting: Users can input multiple words or phrases, separated by a chosen delimiter, to be highlighted across the active web page.

- Color Customization: Personalize the appearance of your highlights by selecting your preferred color using an integrated color picker.

- Dynamic Color Shades: The extension automatically generates varying shades of the selected color for each highlighted word, ensuring clear visual distinction between different highlights.

- Advanced Text Styling: Apply bold, italic, and underline styles to your highlights, allowing for further customization and emphasis.

- Adjustable Opacity: Control the transparency of highlighted text using a simple slider, enabling a more subtle or prominent visual effect as needed.

- Real-Time Text Matching: Advanced regular expressions accurately detect and highlight words, even when they appear multiple times on the page, all in real-time as you type.

- Global Highlighting Across Tabs: Keep your highlights consistent across multiple tabs with the global highlighting feature, ensuring you never miss an important word.

- Seamless Integration: The extension works effortlessly with any webpage without requiring reloads or causing disruptions to your browsing experience.

- Persistent Highlighting: Your input is saved even after closing the extension, allowing for consistent highlighting without needing to re-enter words.

- Keyboard Shortcut Setup: Set up a custom keyboard shortcut to quickly open the extension, enhancing accessibility and convenience.

- Real-Time Updates: As you type, the extension dynamically highlights or removes words without the need to press enter or click a button.
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "manifest_version": 3, "name": "MultiHighlight", "version": "1.5", "description": "Highlight specified words on the current web page.", "permissions": [ "activeTab", "scripting", "commands" ], "action": { "default_popup": "popup.html", "default_icon": { "16": "icons/search16.png", "128": "icons/search128.png" } }, "background": { "service_worker": "background.js" }, "icons": { "16": "icons/search16.png", "128": "icons/search128.png" }}
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How to download and manually install MultiHighlight extension for Chrome

Looking for a way to install MultiHighlight extensions for Chrome, you can search for them in the Chrome Web Store, clicking the "Add to Chrome" button, and following the straightforward process.

However, you may need to install MultiHighlight extensions manually, this article outlines two simple methods to effortlessly install MultiHighlight extensions, whether they come as unpacked folders in compressed formats like .zip or as .crx files.

Method 1: Download MultiHighlight extension and manually install through Drag &Drop

If you ever need to manually install a MultiHighlight extension for Chrome, don't worry, it's a simple process. Just follow these easy steps, and you will have your extension ready to use in no time.

Step 1: Download the MultiHighlight Extension by clicking the "Download CRX" button on the website.

Look for the MultiHighlight extension you wish to install. Go to the website and download the MultiHighlight extension package, which is usually a .CRX file and comes in a zipped file. Here ".crx" file is the format for MultiHighlight extension that contains all the data.

Step 2: Extract &Arrange Files

Once the file is downloaded, extract that file into its own folder. Similarly, give that extension files a permanent home. In other words, keep it in a folder that you don't accidentally delete it because these files will be needed to make that extension work.

Step 3: Go to the Chrome Extensions Page

Open Google Chrome and in the address bar, type chrome://extensions; it will open the Google Chrome extensions page. Make sure that "My extensions" is selected in the sidebar.

Step 4: Drag and Drop the Extension

Now, go to the folder where you extracted the MultiHighlight extension and drag &drop the extension file from there anywhere onto the extension page within Google Chrome.

Step 5: Complete the Installation

Once you drag and drop the extension file, follow the steps that Google Chrome takes you through. Similarly, if the extension file is of .crx file format, you will be required to review the permissions and then add the extension.

Now, you can manage that added extension as you would like to with any other Chrome extension that you added through Chrome Webstore. Its icon will also appear in the Google Chrome Menu on the right side of the address bar once you activate it.

Method 2: Download MultiHighlight extension for Chrome and install in Developer Mode

This is another method to install MultiHighlight extension manually, but the twist is that here, you install by enabling the developer mode option provided in Google Chrome. This mode is commonly used for testing extensions or running unpublished tools.

Step 1: Download the MultiHighlight extension file

Select and download the MultiHighlight extension by clicking the 'Download CRX' button on the website.

Step 2: Extract the downloaded contents

Convert the file to a ZIP file if it is in CRX format then extract the MultiHighlight extension zip file or folder that you downloaded. Make sure you extract it using the same folder name and keep it safely in another folder, so you don't delete it by mistake. The extracted folder will be needed to keep your MultiHighlight extension running.

Step 3: Open Chrome Extension Setting Page

In the address bar of Google Chrome, type chrome://extensions and open the Chrome Extension Page.

Step 4: Enable Developer Mode

After opening the Chrome Extension page, look at the top right side, and you will find the toggle option of "Developer mode."Simply enable that developer mode option.

Step 5: Load the Unpacked Extension

Once you enable the developer mode option, you will see the menu of Load Unpacked, Pack Extensions and Update. From that, select the option "Load unpacked."

Step 6: Select the Extension Folder

Once the pop-up opens upon clicking Load unpacked, select the MultiHighlight extension directory and click on the "Select Folder "button.

Step 7: Confirm and Install

After you select an extension folder of a Google Chrome extension you're installing manually, confirm its installation for the final time and let the installation complete.

Conclusion

Here we've made a step-by-step guide on How to manually install MultiHighlight extension in 2 ways. We hope this guide proves helpful.

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