Skinny

This extension lets you limit the width of any web page, for better readability on big screens.

What is Skinny?

Skinny is a Chrome extension that lets you limit the width of any web page for better readability on high-resolution monitors. With just a click, you can instantly narrow the page, ensuring comfortable reading on websites like Wikipedia. It adds vertical bars that are draggable to change the width. The extension keeps track of 'skinny' pages, except for those visited in incognito mode. If you encounter any issues, the developer is ready to address them.

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Extension stats

By: David Gilbertson

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Users: 303 ▲ 14

Rating: 4.38 (13)

Version: 1.8 (Last updated: 2020-05-15)

Creation date: 2020-05-15

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

activeTab
storage

Size: 18.05K

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# 49494 ▲ 648

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#27957 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 76

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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When a web page has lines of text that run the full width of the page, it can become hard to read on high resolution monitors. If you find yourself making your browser window smaller just so you can read Wikipedia comfortably, this is the extension for you!

Just click the Skinny icon to instantly make the page narrower. (The extensions doesn't change any pages until you click the button.)

Two vertical bars are added to the page, visible only on hover, that you can drag to change the width.

It will keep track of pages that you have set to be 'skinny', except any pages you visit in incognito mode.

If there's a site that's not behaving well with this extension let me know and I'll check it out.

User reviews

Great little extension, too bad it's not on firefox. Is the source code available somewhere so I could port it?

Jérôme Scheefer, 2024-09-13

Does the opposite of this exist? I want to force news articles to take text lines to full width instead of fixed.

Aaron P, 2024-05-31

great extension, i hope it's updated more in the present. this will blow up if any community finds about it. I have one request for the extension to adjust the page if the page zoom is change, it causes the page to aligh left side in some scenarios. thank you to the dev! i genuinly am gratefull