# HotGato Speed Reader

> Speed read any website or paragraph with HotGato.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `hotgato-speed-reader`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** RA
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,search-tools,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 32
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Version:** 1.12
- **Last updated:** 2025-05-18
- **First published:** 2024-08-18
- **Size:** 372 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/hotgato-speed-reader/)
- **Website:** [https://zinglab.com/](https://zinglab.com/)

## Description

Speed reading extension right in your browser. Just select some text, right-click, and select HotGato Speed Read. Boom, the whole article will be loaded into the HotGato popup for you to zip through! Perfect for scanning long articles and reviewing documents.

## Rankings

- #20,031 — Overall
- #98 — speed
- #141 — reader
- #238 — spend

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`
- `activeTab`
- `scripting`
- `storage`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate 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/hotgato-speed-reader)