You can easily highlight text and images in the web pages visited by you with different colored pens in your Mozilla Firefox browser. Such highlights will remain intact and will remain visible to you even when you visit the same web page subsequently. It is like highlighting some text with an indelible color ink (but, it is possible to delete these highlights at a later stage, if you so want). All this can be very handy for future reference or if you’re seriously studying or researching some topic comparing some products, etc. Such highlights are possible with the help of Wired-Marker add-on for Firefox.
Wired-Marker highlighter comes in various colors and styles. The highlighted content in a web page gets automatically recorded in a scrapbook and saved. It is like an electronic bookmark that serves as a guide when you revisit a web page.
How to highlight some text?
Basically, there are two methods to highlight some text with Wired-Marker:
(1) Select the text to be highlighted with your mouse / keyboard in the currently open web page. Now right-click on the text and from the context menu, select Wired-Marker and then from the popup menu, select Marker. It will open yet another sub-popup menu displaying various colored pens. Simply click on the colored marker of your choice and your text will get highlighted. Have a look at Wired-Marker in action while highlighting some text in a web page using this method:
(2) For using the second (alternative) method, first display the Wired-Marker folders in the sidebar of Firefox. You can do so by pressing the short-cut keys Alt + X together. Now, select the text that you want to highlight in the currently open web page. Drag and drop this selected text to the Wired-Marker Color folder of your choice (you can drag and drop by keeping the left mouse key pressed and dragging the mouse and then releasing the left mouse key at the desired destination). See the following figure:
How to remove the highlights from a web page?
Wired-Marker remembers the highlighted text and color by bookmarking a copy of the web page in the respective Marker folder. If you’ve used more than one color Marker pens to highlight text on a single web page, then it will record separate bookmarks for the same web page in all the respective Marker folder of that color. Therefore, to remove the highlights of particular color from the contents of a web page, go to the Marker folder of that color in the Wired-Marker folders, find the reference to that web page and delete that bookmark entry. This will remove that particular highlighted color from that web page. So, when you visit that web page next time, you won’t see that particular highlight. However, if more highlight colors were used on the same web page, then those other highlights will still remain intact. To remove all highlights from a web page, you’ll have to remove bookmarks from all Marker color folders that are related to that web page.
Wired-Marker has several customizable options / settings that can be changed by opening the Settings dialog box. To do so, click on Settings option on Wired-Marker menu.
You can also use Wired-Marker as a scrapbook folder since text and pictures are automatically copied when they are highlighted. This means that a scrapbook is automatically generated by Wired-Marker without any additional operations. You can also increase the number of highlighter colors and styles as per your needs. Moreover, you can create hierarchical folders corresponding to each type of highlighter and display the bookmark information in a hierarchical list view.
Want to know more about Wired-Marker? Watch the following YouTube video prepared by Wired-Marker developers:
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