Custom Highlight
A chrome extension for customizing highlight color.
As of June 2026, Custom Highlight has 9,000 users and a 3.96/5 rating from 27 reviews in the Functionality & UI category.
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Version
1.5.0
Manifest V3
History
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| Date | Users | Rating | Reviews | Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 2026 | 9.0K | 3.96 | 27 | 1.5.0 |
| Now | 9.0K | 3.96 | 27 | 1.5.0 |
Permissions & access
- Permissions
- storagescripting
- Host access
- <all_urls>
Screenshots
About
Change Highlight background and text-color. It's easy to set the color with the built-in color picker or by copy and pasting color hex codes. Works on pretty much all websites. Compatible with Dark Reader. Pages might have to be reloaded after install for the highlight to be set. -- This extension does not read or handle any user data. https://andreto.github.io/Custom-Highlight/
Technical
- Version
- 1.5.0
- Manifest
- V3
- Size
- 56.93KiB
- Min Chrome
- 88
- Languages
- 1
- Featured
- Yes
Metadata
- ID
- bmhaflbnleckffaacepbbbonfookcedm
- Developer ID
- u46bd8b003ec6640cde2ccc4b66536ce2
- Developer Email
- [email protected]
- Created
- Apr 10, 2019
- Last Updated (Store)
- Feb 28, 2025
- Last Scraped
- Jun 8, 2026
- Website
- —
- Support URL
- https://github.com/Andreto/Custom-Highlight
- Privacy Policy
- —
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Data sourced from the Chrome Web Store · last verified Jun 8, 2026.