# Markdown Reader

> Helps you better preview markdown documents.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `markdown-reader-ext`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Bener
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 6,017
- **Weekly downloads:** 586
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (26 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.17.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-24
- **First published:** 2024-06-27
- **Size:** 2.10 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/markdown-reader-ext/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/md-reader/md-reader](https://github.com/md-reader/md-reader)

## Description

Markdown Reader is an intuitive Chrome extension designed to enhance your experience with markdown documents. It supports previewing markdown files from local storage or online URLs with extensions like *.md, *.mkd, *.mdx, and *.markdown.

This extension comes packed with features including support for emoji emoticons, superscripts, subscripts, checkboxes, mathematical formulas, flowcharts, Gantt charts, and more. It also provides syntax highlighting, customizable light and dark themes, and real-time hot reloading to preview document changes immediately. The sidebar organizes your document directory for easy navigation and supports previewing original file content and image media resources, making reading and managing markdown files seamless and efficient.

## Rankings

- #1,054 — Overall
- #151 — Other extensions
- #9 — paraphrase
- #9 — paraphraser
- #9 — paraphrasing
- #10 — reader

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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