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In the last couple days I noticed text being highlighted from search results I click on from Google.
For example, when I click on StackOverflow link from Google search:
(The yellow was added by Google, not StackOverflow.)
How can I disable this? I don't really like it indicating that some text is more important than other text.
This is now controlled by a registry key, per https://cloud.google.com/docs/chrome-enterprise/policies/?policy=ScrollToTextFragmentEnabled
In windows in a powershell admin console:
New-Item -Path HKLM:\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\ -Force
New-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\ -Name ScrollToTextFragmentEnabled -Value 0 -PropertyType DWORD -Force