Better Text View

Makes webpage text larger and readable.
What is Better Text View?
Better Text View is an Edge add-on that enhances webpage text for better readability. It increases text size, adjusts contrast, and allows customization of font weight. It also offers features like dark mode, color inversion, and skipping navigation menus for a tailored reading experience.

Add-on stats

Users: 205 ▼ -3
Rating: 5.00 (2)
Version: 6.1.3 (Last updated: 2024-11-09)
Creation date: 2023-02-15
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • storage
  • declarativeNetRequest
Host permissions:
  • *://*/*
  • file:///*
  • <all_urls>
Size: 821.40K

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Better Text View (v6.1.4)
4.33 (6) 532
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Add-on summary

This extension enlarges text and makes it higher contrast, so that website text is easier to read. Font size within threshold is enlarged inversely with font size. That means small text made bigger than large text. The text size is increased inversely with its size. This means small sized text is made much bigger than larger text, which is slightly increased in size. All text within size of Threshold setting is increased in size with text closer to Font Threshold size increasing less than text much lower size than Threshold, depending of Font Increase % setting. Text size of ANY TEXT IS NOT DECREASED (unless --g_smaller_text is enabled) to less than its normal size. Smaller text becomes as large as (or larger than) text of Threshold size.

NEW CHANGES Style sheet processing for colors is skipped if 'Dark mode' is set. Bugfix for images with 'PICTURE' tag not displayed in reverse colors on some sites. Stop the mutation observer when applying settings. Mark as done the parent nodes of new mutation nodes. If content is 'appended' to page after it loads, the page settings will now also apply to the new content. Bugfix for background color not updating when brightness / contrast is changed in dark mode / reverse colors. In 'Start 3 letters bold', the variable '--g_start3_caps' can now be set to line / paragraph mode, in which starting LETTER of line / paragraph is changed to different style which is specified in the variable value. Added Pause / Resume function of speak out loud by zooming text. The Escape key pauses the reading, and pressing Escape again resumes the speech from where it was stopped. Enabling 'Process black text' now changes originally black text to white color if background color brightness is less than '--g_min_bg_brightness'. New variable '--g_skip_css_colors' which skips hue correction (and contrast) of elements processed in stylesheets.Setting '--g_skip_css_colors' to greater than 10 skips more elements than less than 10, and if greater than 99, skips text contrast.Default value is disabled. Bugfix for speak out loud text-to-speech, which would stop speech after few sentences. Now it might stop in long sentences, but less often. Simplified contrast calculation. If text color brightness is more than background color brightness, text is made white, otherwise black. SOME SITE SETTINGS will need adjusting. As the calculation relies on background color being correct (text color is generally always correct), most adjustment will be setting background color, through custom CSS, of elements having mismatch in color of background displayed vs. background calculated in CSS. The '--g_svg_bg_white' now also works for PNG images. Set this to enabled / 'dontinvert' if icons do not appear correct in reverse colors.

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User reviews

Helpful application
by Zd, 2024-07-31

great tool to make text easier to view.
by Yang,, 2023-04-05
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Better Text View requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Better Text View is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

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