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Postlight Reader: Enhance Your Reading Experience on Firefox
Postlight Reader is a beneficial Firefox add-on, developed to improve user reading experiences online. It efficiently rids your articles of advertisements and distractions, offering a clean, consistent reading view across all websites. Noteworthy features include the 'Send To Kindle' functionality, customizable typeface and text size, light and dark theme options, printing optimization, and easy sharing through Facebook, Twitter, and Email.
Add-on stats
Weekly download count: 75
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
- contextMenus
- tabs
- storage
- activeTab
Size: 1.49M
Email: he*****@postlight.com
URLs: Website
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Other platforms
Not available on Chrome
Not available on Android
Not available on Edge
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Add-on summary
The Postlight Reader extension (formerly known as Mercury Reader) removes ads and distractions, leaving only text and images for a clean and consistent reading view on every site.
Features:
- Disable surrounding webpage noise and clutter with one click
- Send To Kindle functionality
- Adjust typeface and text size, and toggle between light or dark themes
- Printing optimization
- Sharing through Facebook, Twitter and Email
User reviews
by josepml99, 2024-12-28
I don't remember downloading this addon, but it popped up a notification on a site about the name change of this extension and mangled the webpage I was viewing. I lost some really important information I was trying to access because it forced me to refresh the page.
I lost about 30 minutes of work because they wanted to inform me of a name change :(
by Firefox user 13824765, 2024-11-28
by Firefox user 14346878, 2024-05-19
Add-on safety
Risk impact
Postlight Reader requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.
Risk impact analysis details
- Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Risk likelihood
Postlight Reader has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
Risk likelihood analysis details
- High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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