A watered-down port of Prostetnic Highlighter

Latest Version

Version
0.0.6
Update
September 25, 2016
Size
54.08KiB
Developer
Category
Users
571
Rating
5 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English (United States)
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Permissions
ContextMenus
ActiveTab
Storage
UnlimitedStorage
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Persistent Highlighter Extension

So far,

highlights the text on the page,

stores url and highlight text as key/value pair in local storage,

re-highlights text passages when we re-visit a URL, and

previous highlights are searchable by word.

Doesn't work on Disqus comments, and some other websites. Working on that...
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "name" : "Persistent Highlighter", "version" : "0.0.6", "description" : "A watered-down port of Prostetnic Highlighter", "homepage_url": "https://github.com/n8chz/prostetnic-chrome/tree/multicolor", "permissions": [ "contextMenus", "activeTab", "storage", "unlimitedStorage" ], "icons": { "128": "hilite.png" }, "background": { "scripts": ["menu.js"] }, "content_scripts": [ { "matches": [""], "css": ["hilite.css"], "js": ["lib.js", "rehilite.js"] } ], "browser_action": { "default_icon": { "19": "search19.png", "38": "search.png" }, "default_title": "Search for words in previous highlights", "default_popup": "popup.html" }, "manifest_version": 2}
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