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Disable Google Search Text Highlights

by everyonesdesign

v3.0.0 Updated Aug 31, 2024 15.25KiB
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★ 4.62
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Description

Google search results sometimes highlight text snippets on pages opened from search results. The feature can sometimes be annoying, however currently there's no way to disable it from browser preferences. This extension has been created to override it and disable the highlights. Disable Google Search Text Highlights is open source software: https://github.com/everyonesdesign/disable-google-search-text-highlights ☕ If you like the extension you can buy a coffee for the author here: https://buymeacoff.ee/everyonesdesign ============ Changelog 3.0.0 - migrate to manifest v3 2.1.1 - add deprecated domains back to the list (to avoid prompting users about the changed list and also in case Google brings them back in the future) 2.1.0 (unreleased) - update Google domains list 2.0.0 - use runPatiently function to run as early as possible - replace the links instead of updating urls - run the script earlier (to make sure the links are replaced by the time the page is loaded) 1.1.0 - Only change href if text fragment is present - Drop trailing "#" caused by text fragment 1.0.0 Major release - Lower permissions level (specific domains instead of all_urls) - Replace only :~:text piece of fragment directives, leaving other directives untouched - Fix: remove text fragment for URLs with hashes - Add tests 0.0.5 - Improve pattern for matching all the Google domains 0.0.4 - Fix an issue with breaking "Tools" buttons functionality on Google 0.0.2 - Initial stable version ============ Tags: Scroll to Text Fragment, fragmentDirective textFragment
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Reviews (7 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2026-01-27
Donald C

at first it worked, i thought wow this is exactly what im looking for but the next day i loaded up google i highlighted some text, and the annoying popup happened i checked to see if the extension was running it was this is not working 100% exactly and as intended if i can get this to work again, then i might be inclined to improve the rating from 1 star to much higher

★☆☆☆☆2021-02-28
Catringa H

No longer works

★☆☆☆☆2021-01-16
Kevin Guidry

No longer working. :( (First URL at which I noticed this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLBPA_Baseball#:~:text=MLBPA%20Baseball%2C%20known%20in%20Japan,%2FGenesis%2C%20and%20Game%20Gear.)

★★☆☆☆2024-02-24
Adam Welch

Does not seem to be removing the highlights in the inital search, does this need an update?

★★☆☆☆2023-11-27
Mike Fitzpatrick

This extension stopped working for me. It's installed and on, but it's no longer doing its job. Google is the king of annoyance thought to be convenience, without the ability to disable their B.S. May be time to switch search engines.

★★☆☆☆2021-02-04
Martin Ligabue

does not read/edit any webpage, so it doen't do anything

★★★☆☆2023-05-30
Erik S

I came to this extension late, but I was glad to have found it. That said, it stopped doing what it says on the tin about a month ago, and I'm having to deal with these infuriating highlights constantly again, and it's like this extension isn't even installed on my browser. Very frustrating. I'm hoping whoever developed this extension can figure out a work-around, because quite frankly it's a stroke of genius (when it works)!

Details

Version 3.0.0
Updated Aug 31, 2024
Size 15.25KiB
First Seen Mar 24, 2026