Just Read

Name: Just Read
Rating: 4.8077 (26 reviews)
Author: Zach Saucier

By: Zach Saucier

A feature-packed, customizable reader extension.

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Features & Capabilities

Just Read is a powerful and customizable Chrome extension designed to enhance your web reading experience by removing distractions such as ads, popups, comments, and the page's original styling. This reader mode delivers a clean and simplified format that you can tailor with default white and dark themes, custom CSS, or community-created themes.

With features like keyboard shortcuts, selection and deletion modes, automatic site-specific activation, and custom styling, Just Read offers flexible control over how you view articles. The Premium version includes advanced functionalities like saving and sharing cleaned pages, highlighting and annotation, auto-scroll, custom scrollbar, and domain-specific selectors. Prioritizing user privacy, Just Read collects no data by default and is fully open source on GitHub, making it a trustworthy tool for distraction-free, personalized reading.

User Growth & Download Statistics

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Version:

6.1.1 Last updated: 2026-05-19

Version code:

6267818

Creation date:

2018-02-19

Risk:

Permissions:

Host permissions:

*://*/*

Content scripts matches:

justread.link

Size:

395.37KB

Email:

su*****@justread.link

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-18

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 2,030 ▼ 18

Other rankings

#117 in Feeds, News & Blogging ▼ 3#320 in Appearance ▼ 2

Other platforms

Just Read (v6.1.1)

200,000 4.65

(905)

Just Read (v6.1.1)

38,348 3.60

(5)

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Developed by:

Zach Saucier

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/just-read-ext/

Email:

su*****@justread.link

Website:

https://justread.link/

Permission Change History

2023-07-23: Version 5.2.14 → 5.3.0

Add Host permissions: *://*/*

Add Permissions: scripting

Remove Permissions: *://*/*

User Reviews

Users broadly praise Just Read for delivering a clean, clutter-free reading experience with neat formatting and strong cross-device usability, plus handy print/export options. It is generally intuitive and keeps content organized. However, several recurring downsides surface: occasional reliability problems where it stops working, PDF export glitches such as blank or misnamed files, a configuration UI that hides after changes, and a lack of simple customization controls (like line height). The ongoing experimental status is also noted by some users.

Pros

Cleans up articles with clutter-free, neat formatting for easy reading.
Works across devices, including mobile, and can be used anywhere beyond built-in reader modes.
Supports printing and saving pages as PDFs, preserving useful content.
Clean, intuitive design with generally good stability and responsive developer support.
Keeps content organized and focused on the reading experience.

Cons

Reliability issues: extension can stop working after a few uses.
PDF export can misbehave (blank PDFs or misnamed files).
Configuration panel can become hidden after changes, making adjustments cumbersome.
Lacks easy, user-friendly customization (e.g., line-height) without editing CSS.
Being labeled experimental can signal potential instability or incomplete features.

Recent reviews

I installed this extension and went right to premium so I could share the Just Read version of pages with others via email. I was hoping for something similar to EmailThis which I paid for the premium version too. That WAS a great extension as the developer doesn't keep it working any longer. The Just Read link is good but could be better if the reader version could be emailed intact with the article title and link to the original article with the JR version intact in the email body. To send an email with the link I have to give the email a title because the link doesn't provide that info. Hope this makes sense for improving a great extension. Thanks, Tom So after a few years I got back in touch with Zach and told him I would like to be a Premium member again because I use the as is Ext everyday but still wanted to know if he could modify the JR Extension to suit my needs. After a few email exchanges Zach said he would give my specs a try. A couple of weeks later Zach got back in touch and said the project was harder than he had imagined but my requests were implemented. I tested the new features that I had requested and found that the new Extension does exactly what I had wanted it to do, namely, that the share feature would enable my email client to open a new message with the Subject from the Share propagated along with the Just Read link contained in the email body. Then all you have to do is fill in who you want to send to from your email client address book. I am now a very happy and satisfied Premium customer. Zach and his team are very responsive and more than helpful. Thanks a bunch for all your hard work Zach!!!

by To*****, 2026-04-06

This extension does exactly what I've been looking for for a long time. Now I can clean up the articles I want to read and download them as PDFs. This is perfect.

by Jo*****, 2026-01-11

by 退出*****, 2025-03-27

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Is Just Read 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.

Just Read requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. 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.
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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.

Just Read is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this add-on.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.
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