# Just Read

> A feature-packed, customizable reader extension.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/just-read-ext](https://chrome-stats.com/d/just-read-ext)

## Overview

- **ID:** `just-read-ext`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Zach Saucier
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,appearance
- **Daily users:** 2,183
- **Weekly downloads:** 36
- **Rating:** 4.81 / 5 (27 ratings)
- **Version:** 7.1.2
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-05
- **First published:** 2018-02-19
- **Size:** 1.10 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/just-read-ext/)
- **Website:** [https://justread.link/](https://justread.link/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/just-read-ext/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/just-read-ext/privacy/)

## Description

**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.

## Rankings

- #2,051 — Overall
- #115 — Feeds, News & Blogging
- #329 — Appearance

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `contextMenus`
- `storage`
- `scripting`

### Host permissions

- `*://*/*`

### Content script matches

- `justread.link`
- `www.justread.link`

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

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## Review summary

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.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/just-read-ext)