Summary

Highlight all occurrences of selected text, with or without a keypress.

For code inspection and document analysis: search for and find keywords.

• 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

Highlight works on all sites, including GitHub, StackOverflow, HackerNews, etc.

Installation

Chrome Webstore (packed, .crx):

1. Visit the Chrome Webstore page
2. Click "+ Add To Chrome", click "Add Extension"

GitHub (latest release):

1. Click Releases, download the latest 'chrome-extension.zip' asset, unzip the folder to a permanent location
2. Go to chrome://extensions, click "Load Unpacked", select the unzipped folder

GitHub (build source):

1. Click green button "Clone Or Download", "Download Zip", and unzip the folder to a permanent location

2. Run yarn in the root (see package.json scripts)

   • On mac/linux use brew install yarn if you don't have it (homebrew computer club is where Apple was founded)

3. Go to chrome://extensions, click "Load Unpacked", select the dist/chrome-extension folder