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When the keyword list contains an empty word (e.g. because the list ends in a comma) it probably tries to match EVERYTHING.

The only way out is killing and restarting the browser, and before all the tabs are restored, fix the plugin keywords.

Why would any sane person do that? It happened accidentally. I had a list of words in my editor, one on each line so I could sort and remove duplicates with the editor. I replaced the newlines between the words to commas, not realizing that there's a newline after the last word. I copy/pasted the line (now too long to fit on my screen) quickly into the plugin. Moreover, I do this a lot in Java, which plainly ignores trailing commas in array initializers, so it's become a habit.

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Can you add a key press to step down through the found keywords? Maybe up and down arrow keys to go to the next or previous keywords that the app has found. This would be very useful.

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Acknowledgement of difficulty:
This request recognizes that porting any program is a huge undertaking and requires a lot of time and effort typically by multiple people as well as generating the teams necessary to maintain the port moving forward.

Claim:
That being said, it should at the very least be noted that this version of a highlighter might dominate the competition in the Google Chrome market place as so far there doesn't appear to be another add-on in that market that can do what this one is currently capable of doing. Some come close, but actually can't highlight phrases, or they use the same color for all the highlights, or they are difficult for some users, etc.

Credentials for making the above claim:
My credential for making such a claim is that I have tried the majority of add-ons in the chrome market place that can perform highlighting for the purpose of finding search results, and according to the comments on those add-ons and my own testing of them, your add-on ("multi-keywords-highlighter", after adding another poster's feature request for jumping forwards and backwards through the highlighted text) would on first glance appear to meet the needs being requested by the Chrome community myself included.

Feature Requested:
If you have enough time, or if enough developers get involved, then please port this add-on to the Google Chrome web-browser.

Thanks.

Do you plan to support regex search terms?

Can i change the search terms while browsing?

Also: when multiple occurences are found, can i copy all of them at once?

Refresh one tab that contains keywords, then before it refreshes, select another tab or another window. Now THAT window gets re-highlighted instead. The page being refreshed isn't highlighted at all.

A common usage scenario beneath the sticky keyword list across all pages could be that a user starts searching with Firefox's search box. After that he wants to highlight the search terms to be able finding the important parts of the page easier.

If there would be a mode where the keywords wouldn't need to be entered manually this could be achieved. My thoughts are going in this direction:

• Click on the icon reads the current search terms from Firefox's search box, adds them silently to the highlighting keywords and starts the highlighting
• Click on the icon with a modifier key clears all highlighting keywords

Is it possible to separate words using space character?

I used a legacy add-on called Multiple-highlighter which is similar to this one except instead of assigning a random color to each expression, it lets you type expressions in multiple rows, one for each color (but you can still type multiple expressions in the same row). That was really powerful but now that Firefox Quantum is out and has disabled all legacy add-ons, I have to find an alternative and your add-on seems to be the closest.

or is there a way to to distinguish a character alone from part of a word

(example I would like to highlight all emails in priority 1, but no all dates containing a 1 (2018-01-01) )

It's not multi-DPI compatible.

I have two screens, one high-DPI, one normal. On the high-DPI screen it works fine. On the normal screen it flips out under certain circumstances (it didn't happen to me the first time I entered a keyword, but all times after). If it matters, the main screen is high-DPI.

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This, from spanish.kwiziq.com...

<span class="test-questions__hint">HINT: Conjugate "saludar" in El <span class="highlighted style-3" style="">Presente</span> <span class="highlighted style-3" style=""><span class="highlighted style-3" style="">Subjuntivo</span></span></span>

appears on the page as this...

HINT: Conjugate "saludar" in El Presente Subjuntivo

and I want to match "Presente Subjuntivo". But I can only match the two words separately. Not together with a space between them. I mean if the keyword list contains ",Presente,Subjuntivo," they will each be matched in different colours without the space highlighted - as expected.

But if the keyword list contains ",Presente Subjuntivo," it wont be matched at all. I want them to match together, including the space, in the same colour.

Is what I'm seeing the expected behaviour?