everyonesdesign / disable-google-search-text-highlights

This minimalistic extension disables "Scroll to Text Fragment" feature in Google search results

Disable Text Highlights from Google Search Results

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Google Chrome introduced a feature highlighting relevant text snippet by relying on the new Scroll to Text Fragment API.

It seems that at the moment there is no way to disable the feature. Because of that, some users got annoyed by the functionality (e.g. see this issue of the original standard proposal).

How to install it from source?

This manual is for Google Chrome

• Clone the repository or download as .zip file (if latter then extract the contents)
• To to Google Chrome's Extensions page
• You'll have to enable Developer Mode (switch in the top corner)
• Click on "Load unpacked" button
• Choose "app" folder inside of the downloaded source

That's it, you're set!

How can I disable this functionality?

In perfect case it would be possible to control "Scroll to Text Fragment" from JavaScript interface.

In that case it would be easy to override/reset the highlight pattern.

However, currently it seems to be impossible to do so.

As a consequence, this extension changes all the links on Google-hosted pages, removing the part responsible for text highlighting.

What Google domains does this extension run on?

This extension runs only on Google Search domains

This list has been used as a source of Google Search domains for this extension