Infometer

Infometer

Infometer helps you measure how much of a web page you have read.

What is Infometer?
Infometer is a Chrome extension called Infometer that helps you measure your reading progress on web pages. It provides a progress bar and markers to delimit the content area you want to read, making your reading experience more focused and efficient.
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By: eloone
Users: 95 ▼ -6
Rating: 2.33 (3)
Version: 1.0.3 (Last updated: 2014-04-24)
Creation date: 2014-04-24
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • storage
  • tabs
  • management
  • http://*/*
  • https://*/*
Size: 1.03M
URLs: Website
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Summary

Readability extension that provides a progress bar at the top of a web page and two markers to delimit the content area that you want to read when you click on its icon.

Typical usage :

You read lengthy in depth articles that are always caught between useless lengthy information like comments or ads. So the scrollbar becomes useless at telling you how much there is left to read in the information that you care about.

Infometer acts as an information measurer that gives you the same visual clue as the scrollbar about your progress in reading a web page except that you can delimit the specific content to measure.

It will ease your online reading experience as you will read faster and with more focus once you know how much exactly you need to read in a web page.

Features :

★ Gives visual clue like a scrollbar of the progress in a web page except that you delimit the content that is measured. ★ Synces with Chrome Sync. So if you were reading on a computer and had markers set up, if you connect on another computer where chrome is synced, you will have the same thing. It takes 7 seconds to complete a sync cycle. ★ Click on the beginning of the progress bar to find the first marker.

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User reviews
If I want to see my reading progress on a website in a form of a progress bar, I look at the scrollbar. I don't need another bar obstructing the view. I can only see one reason to use Infometer: it allows you to set starting and end points on a website. But if you read from top to bottom, it's unnecessary.
by Paweł Fijałkowski Paweł Fijałkowski, 2016-08-12
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Safety
Risk impact

Infometer is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Infometer if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

Infometer has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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