Permanent Readability

Always use Readability on selected domains
What is Permanent Readability?
Permanent Readability is a Chrome extension designed to enhance your online reading experience. It allows users to permanently enable the Readability feature on their selected domains, helping to ensure a distraction-free, comfortable reading environment. The extension comes with an options page for users to manually control where Readability is enabled, supports wildcard domain matching, and even works in conjunction with the Readability Redux extension for a smoother operation.

Extension stats

Users: 4,000+
Rating: 3.75 (20)
Version: 0.11 (Last updated: 2016-05-04)
Creation date: 2016-05-04
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • management
  • contextMenus
  • tabs
  • chrome://favicon/
Size: 3.57M
URLs: Website

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Extension summary

This extension simply adds a context menu to enable/disable Readability (https://www.readability.com) for the current domain on a permanent basis.

It's designed to work with the Readability Redux extension (http://preview.tinyurl.com/yl4oky3), but will also work without it (just a bit slower).

0.10

  • Added support for wildcards in domain matching
  • Fixed the context menu

0.9

  • Added some help for defining patterns.
  • Fixed confirm dialog when leaving options page after making changes.

0.8

  • Fixes the back button and reload button so that you can cancel readability.
  • Separate the domain name from the pattern to make it work more consistently
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User reviews

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Pros
  • Excellent idea!
  • Fantastic
Cons
  • Doesn't work!
  • Lacking ability to save changes to article appearance
  • You have to program/script it
Most mentioned
  • Doesn't work!
  • You have to program/script it
  • Lacking ability to save changes to article appearance
  • Excellent idea!
  • Fantastic
Recent reviews
You have to program/script it.
by Pat MySecret, 2023-08-29

Doesnt work!

Lacking ability to save changes to article appearance.
by A Google user, 2013-05-14
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Permanent Readability requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

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

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