Yawas Web Highlighter
Highlight and comment web pages.
Your highlights are stored in your browser bookmarks, automatically recreated when you revisit a web page.
Yawas Web Highlighter: Highlight and Comment Web Pages
Yawas Web Highlighter is a robust Firefox add-on for bookmarking, highlighting, and commenting on web content. This tool allows users to select text and apply color highlights that get stored directly within browser bookmarks. Hence, every time a bookmarked page is revisited, the previously made highlights are automatically recreated. Furthermore, users can add contextually relevant notes or comments on highlighted portions for an enriched web browsing and reading experience.
Add-on stats
Manifest V2
By: Laurent Denoue
Weekly download count: 10
Firefox on Android: No
Permissions:
- https://www.google.com/bookmarks/*
- storage
- contextMenus
- tabs
- bookmarks
Size: 58.24K
Email: la*****@appblit.com
URLs: Website
Full description: See detailed description
Ranking
User reviews
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews.
Firefox Browser Add-ons does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate,
spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Automatically saves highlights after refresh
- Supports keyboard shortcuts for highlighting
- Syncs highlights via bookmarks across devices
- Facilitates storage of highlighted texts as searchable bookmarks
- Great for saving usable quotes for writers
Cons
- Does not work with PDFs viewed in Firefox
- Inconsistent performance across different versions of Firefox
- Can slow down system performance significantly
- Some features, like commenting, are not functioning as expected
- Can lose highlights on refresh if too many are present
Most mentioned
- Issues with highlighting PDFs
- Inconsistent functionality across Firefox versions
- Lack of comments feature
- High CPU usage reported
- Desire for improved shortcut and highlighting speed
User reviews
by 退出党团队远离中共恶魔, 2025-03-03
by inarcsjavagarage, 2025-01-04
Thanks for the follow up question. Today I reinstalled Yawas, a day later. Now Yawas works on web pages. Probably one of the other numerous extensions I had installed was an issue. IDK. I disabled a bunch of them before reinstalling Yawas. Anyhow is now a partial win. Works on web pages but not PDFs read by Firefox. Thx x2
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Firefox 124.0.1 (64-bit) on Windows nothing happens. Neither right clicking the highlighted text nor using the shortcuts. Bummer.
by Andre Bell, 2024-03-29
Add-on safety
Risk impact
Yawas Web Highlighter requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk impact analysis details
- Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Risk likelihood
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