Compare Chrome extensions: Best Reader View vs PowerSmash

Stats Best Reader View Best Reader View PowerSmash PowerSmash
User count 7,000+ 100,000+
Average rating 4.72 0.00
Rating count 53 0
Last updated 2021-05-13 2020-10-09
Size 104.45K 93.28K
Version 1.2.7 5.81
Short description
Tired of cluttered web pages full of commericals? Best Reader View cleans all up and renders the only main article of the page! This extension configures your Default Search to PowerSmash (powersmash.net) and Quick Acess to Bookmarks
Full summary

Main features:

  1. Beautifully rendered pages that rivals that of Safari.
  2. Many different options like font, size, themes to choose from.
  3. Open Best Reader automatically as you wish.
  4. Take notes or highlight selections.
  5. The awesome Focus Mode let you view the content in its original page.
  6. Save page to pdf or print use Chrome's print command.
  7. Your data is safe! All processing is done locally in Chrome. No history is sent out to network.
  8. Providing share functionality to twitter and facebook on highlighting the text.

Best Reader View is based on Firefox's open source Readability module, with heavy pre and post processing. It renders web pages better than Firefox's owner reader mode view!. The UX is modeled after Safari's reader view. With Best Reader View, you get the best features out of the two other leading browsers.

Please read carefully: By installing PowerSmash, you agree to change your Default Search to our domain and browse and search Bookmarks quick.

How does it work?

Simply start typing your search query in the Omni Bar, also called address bar and perform your first search through our custom search engine.

Permissions Used: *"Change your search settings to: powersmash.net" we require this permission to change your search settings to our private domain

*"Read your browsing history" This allow us to open our thank you page after install.

*"Read and change your bookmarks" This allow you to have quick access to your bookmarks.

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