Highlight This: finds and marks words

Highlight This: finds and marks words is a Chrome extension developed by Wim Deboel. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of Highlight This: finds and marks words is 5.3.4, updated on 2022-10-16.
100,000+ users have installed this extension. 317 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .
developer website: deboel.eu

Automatically finds and highlights words and phrases on the web page according to your list

- No registration required
- Organize your search words in groups and lists
- Use Regular Expressions (Regex tokens)
- All data stored locally
- Auto-refreshes highlights on page reload and content changes
- Unlimited words and lists
- Synchronise lists between your browsers
- Free

Easy to use Chrome Extension that automatically searches for defined words in the current browser tab and marks them in a text. Many more advanced features available through settings:
- Create color-coded keyword lists
- Disable highlighting on certain sites
- Export or import your settings and keyword lists
- Define click action
- Use lists from Pastebin, Google Sheets

Privacy Statement: https://highlightthis.net/Privacy.html

** New in 5.2
- Define click actions for highlighted words
- Support for loading words from Google Sheets
- Define download frequency for remote lists
- Fixed: Negative reverse lookup regex
- Fixed: Issue with Highlight overview
- Fixed: Issue with download button

** New in 5.1
- Support for case sensitive matching
- Manage words from context menu

** New in 5.0
- New editor to manage your words (filter, select, delete, move)
- Support for Regex tokens

** New in 4.9.1
- Change the storage of an existing list to sync or local
- Updated screen layout for future enhancements

** New in 4.9
- Synchronise lists between your browsers when logged in to Chrome
- Updated translations in FR, NL, ES
- Fixed: downloading backup in Vivaldi browsers

** New in 4.8
- Activate notifications on a list of words to be notified when the word is found on the page
- Fixed: counter of words found

** New in 4.7.4
- New highlighting engine
- Reduced permissions required to run

** New in 4.5
- Select the performance of the hihglighter and the impact on your computer

** New in 4.4.12
- Highlighting happens now also in iframe without src tags

** Fixed in 4.4.10
- Changed the way the highlighter detects a load of a page and a change in the page to provide a more stable highlighting

** Fixed in 4.4.8
- Fixed: an issue whereby the "Show words found" was not displaying on pages which had iframes
- Fixed: a stability issue whereby words were not displayed in the page

** New in 4.4.1
- Faster highlighting: the extension doesn't wait anymore until the page is fully loaded
- Fixed: an issue whereby the "never highlight" setting was not be saved after clearing it
- Fixed: an issue with the found words overview

** New in 4.4
- Support for non basic character sets
- Optional support for highlighting in content editable containers (eg in gmail)
- Fixed: Performance issues
- Fixed: Duplicate names for groups
- Fixed: Issues with highlighting some words / wordparts

** Fixed in 4.3.1
- Fixed an issue whereby the longest match was not highlighted

** New in 4.3
- Fixed: Export is fixed
- Added Russian translation, thanks to Pereshchepino

** Fixed in 4.2
- Fixed: an issue with Pastebin synced lists

** New in 4.1
Allows using a pastebin list, you can share the list and it will synchronize automatically.
- Fixed: an issue with highlighting on Google results page

** New in 4.0
- Shows highlights within frames
- Option to print highlights
- Re-highlights when adding/removing words
- Fixed : Navigating between words is fixed

** New in 4.0
- Shows highlights within frames
- Option to print highlights
- Re-highlights when adding/removing words
- Fixed : Navigating between words is fixed

** New in 3.4
- Words keep their sequence
- Find words and word lists
- Context menu shows order of wordlist on date modified

** Fixed in 3.3.5
- Fixed an issue with incorrect colouring

** New in 3.3
- Set wildcards (?,*) in words
- Backup and restore your words
- Define foreground color
- Define sites on which the highlight should occur

** Fixed in 3.3
- Highlighting of text including special characters

** Define words **
Easily specify words and phrases you want to be highlighted.

** Highlighting **
Highlights the words and phrases on the page
Shows how many words have been highlighted

** Works on Ajax pages **
The extension detects changes to the page and re-highlights the words.