Force Reader View

Name: Force Reader View
Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Author: LaXaRuS

This add-on forcibly activates the reader mode, adds a button to the toolbar, creates a keyboard shortcut, and integrates with native reader mode.

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Features & Capabilities

Reader View in Firefox helps you strip away clutter like buttons, ads, background images and videos, providing a clean and customizable reading experience.

Unfortunately, sometimes due to the structure of the webpage, it cannot be activated natively as not all sites are considered reader-able by Firefox.

This add-on adds a button to the toolbar as well as a shortcut (Ctrl+Alt+Y) which forcibly activates the Reader View even if the icon in the address bar is not present. If the reader view is natively supported for the webpage, then it activates the native reader view. In this way, this addon provides a unified way to activate the reader mode both in read-able and unread-able pages. The ability of the Reader View to make sites readable is not affected by this add-on. Note that some pages might still not work. The shortcut can be modified from the addon page "Manage Extension Shortcuts" option.

Feel free to fork the project on github, create pull requests or open issues.

Github Page: https://github.com/Salvora/force-reader-view

User Growth & Download Statistics

Add-on

By:

LaXaRuS

Daily users:

385 17

Rating:

5.00

(2)

Version:

0.1.1 Last updated: 2024-10-07

Version code:

5820398

Creation date:

2024-10-04

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Permissions:

Size:

27.31KB

URLs:

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Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-14

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 5,792 ▲ 109

Other rankings

#318 in Feeds, News & Blogging ▲ 9

#7 in force keyword 24

#35 in reader keyword 72 ▼ 1

#88 in header keyword 43 ▲ 2

#152 in activity keyword 25

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Developed by:

LaXaRuS

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/force-reader-view/

Website:

https://github.com/Salvora/force-reader-view

User Reviews

Works great! It's nice to have the option to try reader mode even if firefox thought the site was unreaderviewable...in most cases it is!

by Fi*****, 2026-04-23

Works perfectly, thank you a must have!

by Vi*****, 2025-08-26

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Is Force Reader View Safe?

Risk impact

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Force Reader View requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

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

Risk likelihood

Risk likelihood measures the probability that a Firefox add-on may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Firefox add-on reputation on Firefox Add-ons Store, the amount of time the Firefox add-on has been around, and other signals about the Firefox add-on. Our algorithms are not perfect, and are subject to change as we discover new ways to detect malicious extensions. We recommend that you always exercise caution when installing a Firefox add-on.

Force Reader View has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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