Better Text Viewer

Makes plain text files easier to read in Chrome

Better Text Viewer - Read plain text files easily

Better Text Viewer is a lightweight, customizable Chrome extension that facilitates reading plain-text files in Chrome. It provides line numbering, line unwrapping, and syntax highlighting, similar to Notepad++ or Vim.

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This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2022-05-28

By: http://matthewpwatkins.com

Users: 1,000+

Rating: 3.67

(58)

Version: 2.2 (Last updated: 2019-03-08)

Creation date: 2019-03-08

Permissions:

http://*/*
https://*/*
tabs
webRequest

Size: 183.30K

Full description: See detailed description

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

Very like it

Jakov Motsenov, 2021-10-06

Can't figure out how to make this extension work. Spent a half hour and got nowhere. I'm not dumb, I have an MS in business. The link to their website does not work.

Charles Gutman, 2021-05-13

Can't print multi-page txt files when active. clips at first page and prints scrollbar as well

Eric Decker, 2020-06-26

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Better Text Viewer requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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