A way to highlight MULTIPLE terms at once in the browser page. FAST

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A way to highlight MULTIPLE terms at once in the browser page. FAST

I often end up looking through logs in a browser — no grep, no terminal, just the page. Browser search isn't helping enough: Sometimes I need to see every WARN, sometimes every ERROR, or maybe WARN near /suspiciousPath. Doing that manually gets old fast. So I wrote a small Chrome extension, very creatively named "Highlighter Extension". It can highlight multiple terms at once, uses the CSS Highlight API so it doesn’t break layouts of any log stream (or at least it shouldn't), updates when new log lines appear, and lets you jump between matches quickly. I’d really appreciate it if you’d try it on some of your web-based logs and let me know how it behaves. The goal is for it to work on any messy log viewer — whatever HTML or JavaScript is underneath. If you already have a tool that does something similar, it'd be very kind of you to share so I could compare. (Yes, asking before writing code would’ve been smarter, but that better later than never I guess .) P.S. No tracking in the extension, no payment, nothing fancy. Just a small utility that runs entirely in the browser and just highlights text. Hopefully it saves a few minutes the next time when digging through logs at 3 a.m. happens.