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JSON-Luminator

An open-source web-highlighter with the ability to save and restore highlights with json files. Intended to be used as a Firefox Add-on.

JSON-Luminator.Demo.mp4

Features

The following is a list of features currently supported by this Addon.

  • Highlight on selection of text
  • Remove highlight on selection of an already highlighted text
  • Save highlights made on a webpage to a json file
  • Restore highlights from the (aforementioned) json file on start of a new session

Motivation

  • To provide to users the satisfaction of highlighting on webpages
  • To ensure a fail-safe mechanism to persist highlights without having to rely on browser cookies

Running the extension locally

  • git clone https://github.com/gokullan/json-luminator.git
  • Enter about:debuggingin the (Firefox) browser address bar and click on the This Firefox option
  • Click on "Load Temporary Add-on" and choose the folder where the git-repository was cloned
  • To view the extension sidebar, go to the browser menu and choose ViewSidebarsJSON-Luminator

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