Description
Acts as a reading ruler, helping to keep an eye on a line of text with a mouse.
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Review Summary
Users generally find ReadingLine simple, effective, and uniquely helpful for improving reading focus, especially on complex sites and PDFs. However, many highlight the lack of customization options for the reading line's appearance, which limits its usability on dark backgrounds or diverse content. Support for additional content types and shortcut configurations is missing, and some users notice performance issues with many open tabs. Overall, it's appreciated for functionality and simplicity but needs enhancements for flexibility and wider compatibility.
Pros
- Works well on complex research sites and various web pages where similar extensions fail.
- Simple, easy to use, and lightweight, making reading long texts less straining.
- Compatible with PDFs and some other formats in the browser, giving it an edge over other extensions.
- Provides an important accessibility feature that helps users focus while reading.
- Less glitchy compared to other similar extensions with good website compatibility.
Cons
- Lacks customization options such as changing color, opacity, size, and line thickness, which affects usability especially on dark backgrounds.
- Does not support certain content types well, like EPUB files or specific websites like ao3 in some cases.
- No shortcut keys or configurable settings to personalize user experience.
- The reading line can be too light or thin, making it hard to see and less effective for some users.
- Some memory usage issues reported when many tabs are open, causing performance concerns.
Permissions
This extension can:
- storage
- scripting
This extension can access:
- http://*/*
- https://*/*
- file://*/*
Additional Information
0.0.3
June 13, 2022
0.17 MB
en
Developer Information
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