Description
Removes clutter like buttons, backgrounds, adjusts text size, contrast, and layout for better readability
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"Browser Extension" Keyword
"Browser History" Keyword
"Browser Settings" Keyword
"Article" Keyword
"Web Page" Keyword
"Version" Keyword
"Text Editor" Keyword
"Toggle" Keyword
"Text To Speech" Keyword
"Speech" Keyword
"Sheets Extension" Keyword
"Sheets Erweiterung" Keyword
"Reader" Keyword
"Google Chrome" Keyword
"Html" Keyword
"Font" Keyword
"Engine" Keyword
"Extension" Keyword
"Document" Keyword
"Display" Keyword
"Chrome Extension" Keyword
"Chrome Browser" Keyword
"Change Color" Keyword
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Review Summary
Reader View is praised for enhancing web reading by stripping distractions and offering rich customization including dark mode, font adjustments, and design editing. Users value its read-aloud functionality and ability to save clean articles. However, several users note shortcomings such as limited shortcut customizations, suboptimal default background colors, browser/platform-specific bugs, and issues handling non-English content. Some users also express dissatisfaction with recent pagination changes. Despite these, it remains highly regarded for improving reading focus and versatility.
Pros
- Significantly improves web reading experience by removing distractions like ads and clutter.
- Highly customizable with options to adjust background colors, fonts, text formatting, and CSS for a personalized reading mode.
- Includes a design mode that allows users to edit and scrub unwanted elements before printing or saving.
- Offers a read-aloud feature, aiding accessibility and convenience.
- Supports saving articles in Markdown or HTML formats, useful for archiving or offline reading.
Cons
- Limited or no easy shortcut customization, conflicting with some browser shortcuts.
- Default background color (beige) and lack of simple options for commonly desired colors like pure white with black text.
- Some display issues on certain browsers (e.g., Brave) or platforms, including blank pages or hidden options.
- Inconsistent behavior with non-English content, especially with languages like Japanese, including incomplete text rendering or incorrect read-aloud voice selections.
- Recent changes to pagination annoy some users who prefer previous behavior, especially when viewing multi-part content like forum stories.
Permissions
This extension can:
- storage
- activeTab
- scripting
- contextMenus
- notifications
- declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess
Additional Information
0.8.2
April 18, 2025
0.29 MB
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Developer Information
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