# Anchor PDF Reader

> A Firefox PDF reader that shows interactive citation previews as you read.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/anchor-pdf-reader](https://chrome-stats.com/d/anchor-pdf-reader)

## Overview

- **ID:** `anchor-pdf-reader`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** burnedinthesky
- **Category:** appearance
- **Daily users:** 6
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Version:** 0.3.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-21
- **First published:** 2026-07-18
- **Size:** 3.04 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/anchor-pdf-reader/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/burnedinthesky/anchor](https://github.com/burnedinthesky/anchor)

## Description

A Firefox extension that adds interactive citation previews for academic PDFs, similar to the Google Scholar PDF Reader on Chrome.

Code is available at <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/44827b1538f492a1fe08d8adc44c05d3894b315d01d294d461a76569c7b56af2/https%3A//github.com/burnedinthesky/anchor" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/burnedinthesky/anchor</a>

## Rankings

- #41,966 — Overall
- #173 — reader
- #188 — pdf

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `activeTab`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `https://api.openalex.org/*`
- `https://api.crossref.org/*`
- `https://api.semanticscholar.org/*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/anchor-pdf-reader)