Reader View

Strips away clutter like buttons, background images, and changes the page's text size, contrast and layout for better readability

What is Reader View?

Reader View is an Edge add-on by Bermet. This add-on has 39,252 weekly active users, a good user rating of 4.80, and is most similar to G App Launcher (Shortcuts for Google™) and React Developer Tools. The latest version, 0.7.1, was updated 3 months ago.

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By: Bermet

View on Edge Add-on Store

Users: 39,252 ▲ 84

Rating: 4.80 (28)

Version: 0.7.1 (Last updated: 2023-02-23)

Creation date: 2021-07-21

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage
activeTab
scripting
contextMenus
notifications
declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess

Size: 757.80K

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood

Other platforms

Reader View (v3.0.0)

93 10,349

Readability based Reader View (v0.6.9)

54 2,072

ChromeStats Rank

# 522 ▲ 5

Other rankings

#834 in Productivity ▲ 1

#9 in reader keyword

#15 in phrase keyword

#16 in mobile view keyword ▼ 1

#17 in speech to text keyword

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Summary

Reader View extension brings Mozilla's open-source Readability implantation to Chromium. Using this extension you can strip clutters from webpages and read them on "Reader View" mode. The extension allows you to toggle between normal view and reader view by pressing the page-action button.

Note that reader view mode works best for web pages that have a lot of content. There are some tools in the left side panel that can help you personalize your Reader View. You can change color, background-color, font-size, font-family and width of the reader view.

Features:
-> Remove distraction
-> Read in fullscreen mode
-> Remove advertisements
-> Save in HTML format
-> Print document
-> Read content using a powerful Text to Speech (TTS) engine
-> Edit HTML content (live editor)
-> Email document (with title, body, and reference to the original document)
-> Correctly display mathematical formulas (MathJax equations are Supported)
-> Highlight selected text

User reviews

Everything worked greatly, but now it's suddenly broken at all sites (includes those that I usually read). Notification said "Error in invocation of scripting.executeScript(scripting.ScriptInjection injection, optional function callback): Error at parameter 'injectior..."

by Duc, 2023-02-04

Good reader, tts not work.

by Maksym, 2023-01-08

You can adjust text size, width of paragraphs, and sizes of images. Also can save as html. Awesome extension

by Hanwenheng, 2023-01-01

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Safety

Risk impact

Reader View requires very minimum permissions and is relatively safe to use.

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Risk likelihood

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

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