A browser-native highlighter and personal library for the open web

[Surya_Abhishek]

Hi Firefox team,

I'm a daily Firefox user and a heavy reader — blogs, research, long-form journalism, financial analysis — across dozens of websites every week.

There's a gap I keep running into that nothing currently solves well.

Often while reading, I come across a specific passage I want to revisit. Not the whole article — just that paragraph. That sentence. That moment.

Bookmarks save the page, not the passage. Pocket saves the article, not the moment. Copy-pasting to a notes app breaks the reading flow entirely. Existing highlight extensions are either clunky, socially focused, or locked to specific websites.

The idea is simple:

A browser-native highlighter — select any text on any website, one click to mark it, and it's saved. Paired with a personal Marker Library: a dedicated page inside Firefox showing every highlight ever made, organized by site and date, with a simple search bar to find anything instantly.

Purely personal. Stored locally. Nothing leaves the machine. No accounts, no sharing, no friction.

This feels like a natural evolution of what Pocket already does. Pocket saves the article. This saves the moment inside the article. Together they'd form a complete reading companion that no other browser comes close to offering.

More importantly — it fits Firefox's core values exactly. Local storage, full privacy, user ownership of their own data. No other browser could do this as authentically as Firefox.

I'd love to know if this resonates with anyone on the product team. Happy to elaborate further.

Thank you for building a browser worth believing in.

Warm regards,
Surya Abhishek

[Jon]

Thanks for submitting an idea to the Mozilla Connect community! Your idea is now open to votes (aka kudos) and comments.

[Jon]

Potentially similar idea here: Annotate websites 

[grundt]

@Surya_Abhishek since you didn't mention it in your idea, I just wanted to make sure you're aware of the recently added (Nov 2025) feature called 'Copy Link to Highlight'. It's not entirely what you're asking for, but at least it could eliminate the need for the extensions you speak of.

Here's a link to its release notes ... in a nutshell:

1. On any web page, select the specific text you'd like to create a shortcut to
2. (desktop browser) rt-click and choose 'Copy Link to Highlight'
3. the shortcut is saved to your clipboard (here is an example of such a shortcut)

[myspace]

here's a vote, good idea 👍 

[PaulB223]

Yes!