Readwise Highlighter extension (both Chrome and Firefox) doesn't work

Did you get any other highlighter working finally? royschwartz

I would love to get this working too. It's a great read later service. Currently, I use the bookmarklet they provide, but because of that I need to have the bookmarks bar visible.

@Vlad Any news on this one?

I get the following pop up when I try to save a page from the Chrome extension…

I get this with both the Firefox and the Chrome extension. Seems it can't wrap the page.

janpeeters Do you think there are no news because I forgot to post about them, or because this is one out of 2000 open issues on the site (and one out of 300,000 web extensions out there) and we have only two developers?

@Vlad I get the impression that I stepped on your toes with my question and that these kinds of questions annoy you. Could it be that since the process after a report is like a black box, which I can understand if there are only two devs, that people just ask a question because they are curious about the state of affairs?

@Vlad thanks for clarifying your perspective. Makes things clear. And I, of course, appreciate your work. And no offense taken by your reply after reading this.

What I didn't know is the two devs situation and that you don't fix extensions on an extension by extension way. Logical, of course, but I didn't realize that. That clarifies why some extensions take longer to get working.

Because two (for me) essential extensions don't work, I see myself using Arc more and more. That's not something I really fancy because Orion still is my favorite browser. I love its philosophy, privacy and clean design. But my productivity also needs to stay up. My inquiry was part of my wish to be able to use Orion for those activities like saving content to Readwise and Obsidian as well.

I'll keep my eye on the statuses and will not bother you with inquiries. You're right, that just creates an extra workload for you, and energy drain. And that is not my intention.

I could imagine the endeavor to get Chrome and Firefox extensions working in a WebKit browser can sometimes feel like an endless stream of issues.
Thanks again, best, Jan

Just wanted to chime in and let anyone who finds this know that the extension is now working on Orion 0.99

I installed the Firefox version of the Readwise Highlighter app directly from the store page and it works for me, including the in-page highlighting context menus saved back to Readwise.

Here is the firefox extension link:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/readwise-highlighter/

Not sure if it was work that Readwise did or that the Orion team did, but either way it got fixed by someone. Both apps (Readwise Read and Orion Browser) are beta products. So it isn't terribly surprising that there were hiccups. But either way, it works now!

(At least the Firefox one does, i never tried Chrome and try to avoid that store if possible)

Happy highlighting!

@jacurtis That's great news. Thanks a lot for the reporting back!

jacurtis Thanks, are you testing on the latest RC?

Vlad

I am using:

Orion
Version 0.99.125-beta (WebKit 616.1.22)
Build date Jul 31 2023
MacBook Pro (macOS Ventura 13.4.1 (c) build 22F770820d)

Also heads up to everyone, for whatever reason, the plugin extension didn't work with any tabs that were opened prior to the install of the extension. I would get the reload tab message, and reloading would just have it ask again.

The solution that worked is to just close the tab, open the same website up in a new tab and now it would work. I replicated this a few times and it seems that no matter how times you reload or navigate around, any tabs that were open before I installed the extension didn't work until I closed them, then it worked ever since.

So my advice is to just restart the browser after installing the extension. With a fresh browser, then all the tabs will recognize the extension and have worked for me ever since. I have tested it on about 25 or so different websites and so far it has worked on everything after the browser restart. And it has worked across multiple restarts too.

There's a regression with the Readwise Highlighter extension. The Chrome version doesn't work at all, clicking the icon does nothing. The Firefox version shows a notification 'reload the tab', but reloading the tab doesn't make it capture the page.

Thanks for having a look at this. I use it a a lot and have to revert to another browser because of this.

Jan

janpeeters It may not be a regression, but the extension adding new features or extensions APIs we do not support yet. have you tried with the same version that was active at the time this was marked as done?