Highlight This! 5.2 - Release Notes
An update has been installed for Highlight This! Below are the main changes released in this version
Support for downloading a list of words from Google Sheets
You can now use a shared Google Sheets as a source for words.
Click action
You can define to open a webpage in a new tab when clicking a highlighted word. This is useful to open a Google search, a wikipedia page or any other page in a website of your choise.
Download frequency
You can specify the frequency of downloading external lists
Fixes
Various fixes were implemented to improve the stability and usage of Highlight This!
- Words overview page stability issues fixed
- Fixed an issue with negative lookbehind regex tokens
- Stabilized donwloading external lists
Case sensitive comparison
You can now find words by taking into account the letter casing (uppercase/lowercase). This can be defined per list in the Advanced tab.
Open the word management popup from the context menu
To save space on the Chrome toolbar, you can now right click a web page and select to manage words from the context menu. The management page will open in a new window.
Fixes
Various fixes were implemented to improve the stability and usage of Highlight This!
- Events in Google Calendar were not show corectly in calendar view, highlighting is now disabled in this view.
- Context menu had issues when you had more than 6 lists
Change of word editor
The word editor has been changed so it supports filtering, selecting, deleting and moving words. More changes to come in the future.
Support for Regular Expression tokens (RegEx)
Highlight This! now offers support for basic regular expression tokens, flag it on in the Advanced settings of a list and use tokens such as [a-z], \d{3}...
Check the help to find out more!
Change the storage of a list
You can now change a synchronised list into a local list and vice versa.
Redesign of list management screen
Providing more space for upcoming updates which will include richer word management and more styling options.
Synchronized lists
You can now create list of words which are synchronized between your different browsers. To have the lists synchronized you need to be logged in to your browser and allow synchronisation of extension data.
Notifications when a word is found
You can now configure to be notified when a word is found on the page you are visiting. The notification is configured per list of words and can be set to notify once or everytime a word from the list is found.
Fixes
Various fixes were implemented to improve the stability and usage of Highlight This!
- Updated language files for EN, FR, NL
- Added icons on the main view to identify which lists are remote/local
- Moved the delete list button to the main view
Interesting links for you
You can find the latest help here
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