# Bionic Reading

> Read faster with bionic-style emphasis on selected text or whole websites.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/bionic\_reading](https://chrome-stats.com/d/bionic_reading)

## Overview

- **ID:** `bionic_reading`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Elvis Oric
- **Category:** appearance
- **Daily users:** 75
- **Weekly downloads:** 14
- **Version:** 0.1.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-02-24
- **First published:** 2026-02-21
- **Size:** 53 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/bionic_reading/)

## Description

Bionic Reading helps you scan text faster by emphasizing the first part of words while keeping the rest readable.

What you can do:
- Keep it off by default.
- Enable bionic reading for the current site.
- Apply bionic reading only to selected text.
- Undo the last selection apply.
- Control intensity of emphasis.
- Choose site policy mode:
  - Allowlist: off by default, enable only selected sites.
  - Blocklist: on by default, disable selected sites.
- Save per-site settings automatically.

Designed for:
- Long articles
- Documentation
- Study and review workflows

Privacy:
- No account required.
- No analytics or tracking.
- No personal data collected or sold.
- Processing happens in your browser tab.

## Rankings

- #13,389 — Overall
- #61 — loading
- #64 — trading

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `activeTab`
- `tabs`
- `contextMenus`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- 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/bionic_reading)