Better Text Viewer

Makes plain text files easier to read in Chrome

What is Better Text Viewer?

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

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

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

Size: 183.30K

URLs: Website

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Not available on Edge

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Description

Better Text Viewer is a lightweight, customizable extension that facilitates reading plain-text files in Chrome. Get the same view of your file that you would in Notepad++, Vim, or any other decent editor, including:

Line numbering
Line unwrapping
Syntax highlighting

The extension automatically determines when you are viewing a plain-text file, and guesses the language based on the file extension-- no configuration necessary [NEW: Content-Type headers taken into account as of v 2.0].

Support will be included for more languages in the future. All bug reports should be submitted via my website's contact page:

www.matthewpwatkins/contact.html

NOTE: Enable the "Allow access to file URLs" option on the extensions page for maximum functionality

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.