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Permanent web text highlighter

Stopped working?
Some users reported Textmarker stopped working after a Firefox update.
Unforntunately neither do we know yet what is causing the issue nor can we reproduce it.
For some users it helped to uninstall Textmarker, restart FF, re-install Textmarker - and eventually restart FF again. But other users had to refresh the whole FF profile.
If you need to backup your Textmarker data before the uninstall -> here you find how to do that:
https://github.com/ufb/Textmarker/issues/84#issuecomment-557044749

Backup your data
Please save a backup of your highlights and settings occasionally (you can do so on Textmarker's "Export & Import" page).
In the rare case you lost your data due to re-installation just import your backup file

Bug reports, problems, suggestions or feature requests via e-mail at [email protected] or on https://github.com/ufb/Textmarker/issues
Feature requests in reviews (especially ones that lower the average rating) will be ignored.

Donations are very welcome - Thank you :)
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Once having Textmarker installed you can open the manual (see screenshot 5) to learn how to use the addon.

Attention: Restoration of saved highlights can fail - especially when the corresp. page's text content changes.

• Mark text:
  Select some text (i.e. with mouse), then click key M or 1-5
• Save
  your changes and maintain them in the Textmarker history → [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [S]
• Undo/Redo
  your Textmarker actions using keyboard shortcuts
• You can also permanently delete
  any highlight via context menu.
• Customize Mark Styles:
  Define how exactly the selected text will be highlighted
• Choose your shortcuts:
  You can customize any shortcut.
• Syning:
  In case you have a Firefox sync account and have syncing enabled for addons Textmarker settings and highlights are being synchronized between your devices. If you don't sync your Firefox addons Textmarker will store your data locally.
• Export:
  Settings and saved highlights can be saved to a local file.
• Bookmarks:
  You can make text marks serve as bookmarks (→ on your next visit it will be scrolled to the lowermost bookmark automatically).
• Wikipedia Look-Up:
  Look up selected word on Wikipedia in a seperate tab - [W]
• Sticky Notes:
  Use context menu (right mouse button) for attaching a note to a highlight

NOTES:

Permissions - what are they used for:
Textmarker does not send any data whatsoever to anyone. All permissions are mandatory in order for Textmarker to work.
necessary permissions:
Access your data for all websites: For insertion of highlights and restoration of stored highlights as well as actions on Textmarker shortcuts the add-on has to read the text content of the page and react on pressing certain keyboard keys
Display notifications to you: For displaying success, failure and error notifications - can be disabled in the settings
Access browser tabs: Textmarker will add URL and page title to stored highlights for being able to restore highlights on page revisit
these permissions are only being used if you want to copy highlights or want Textmarker to work in iFrames:
Input data to the clipboard: For copying highlight text to clipboard
Access browser activity during navigation: Used by Textmarker to get infos about iFrames (url and id) in order to load the content script into iFrames

Looking for translators
Anyone interested in translating Textmarker (right now it's only available in English, German and French)?
Please contact me via e-mail and I will send you the text file.

Note: FF doesn't allow extensions to work in built-in PDF-viewer anymore. Also not in Reader Mode.