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
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Changelog
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
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No longer works
非常に不快な機能を停止してくれる非常に素晴らしい機能を提供してくれてありがとう。
does not read/edit any webpage, so it doen’t do anything
The highlight feature was bugging me because Chrome keeps altering the URLs for the sake of the highlighting, very annoying. This extension disables it all nice and simple. Thanks!
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.)
THANK YOU!
everyonesdesign does what googles does not, and will not allow.
Works, doesn’t require anything manual, great!
Though it does leave the “#” in the URL (while deleting all the “text=” part), but that’s just nitpicking I guess.
Excellent! Thank you for making this.
This worked fine until 8 October. It now is not working. Please update as it was fantastic until now!
Seems to work great and the source code is very minimal, so I don’t have any trust issues at all. Wonderful! However, is the permission to read and change the website content on all websites really necessary? I mean, you just need the URL, right?
Thank you! Makes Chrome work like it used to, which was better.
It works great, thank you! Hide the added string to the URL and the highlight too.
Thank you. The automatic highlighting is incredibly distracting, especially for people who have attention issues. Since the flag can’t be set by users anymore, this seems the only solution to get rid of it.
Great! It’s so annoying when you click a search result and end up in the middle of some article and you have to start by scrolling up.