Readability based Reader View

strips away clutter like buttons, background images, and changes the page's text size, contrast and layout for better readability. Note: This extension uses the standalone version of Mozilla's Readability library.

Readability based Reader View - Enhance Your E-Reading Experience

Readability based Reader View is a unique Firefox add-on that enhances your online reading experiences. It achieves this by stripping away unnecessary elements like buttons and background images, optimizing text size, changing the layout, and adjusting contrast. Additionally, the extension supports text-to-speech functionality, and it allows you to personalize the reader view to suit your reading preferences. Other features include full-screen mode, advertisement removal, saving content in HTML format, document printing, and live HTML content editing.
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By: tlintspr
Users: 2,089
-141
Rating: 4.57
(65)
1 new ratings
Version: 0.6.9 (Last updated: 2023-01-14)
Creation date: 2018-08-28
Weekly download count: 33
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • storage
  • activeTab
  • contextMenus
  • notifications
Size: 776.69K
URLs: Website

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# 1,872 ▲ 19
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Not available on Chrome
Not available on Android
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Note: This extension uses the standalone version of Mozilla's Readability library. The user interface is very similar to the original reader view. However you can apply your own styling to the view. Also it supports text to speech functionality.

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.

Preview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JCKc1CCOR0

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

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Pros
  • Highly customizable and visually appealing
  • Provides a better experience than Firefox's default reader view
  • Reliable at fetching full articles
  • Useful for converting articles into documents for printing or PDF saving
  • Helps users with vision problems
Cons
  • Text-to-speech feature is broken for some users
  • Auto switching to reader view is buggy
  • Issues with saved HTML page framing in newer versions
  • Icon functionality is inconsistent after updates
  • Does not work on Firefox Nightly for Android
Most mentioned
  • Better than default reader view
  • Customization options
  • Issues with bugs and functionality in new updates
User reviews
by Vellmar, 2024-12-29
Needed this for Reddit, it didn't work. (Only shows description in reader view and shows no posts.) Might work for other things.
by BlohoJo, 2024-11-27
by Xen, 2024-11-22
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Risk impact

Readability based Reader View requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Readability based Reader View has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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