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Stats Best Reader View Best Reader View Multi-highlight Multi-highlight
User count 7,000+ 202,042+
Average rating 4.72 4.10
Rating count 53 539
Last updated 2021-05-13 2020-06-17
Size 104.45K 60.78K
Version 1.2.7 1.21
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! Search and highlight multiple words on web pages.
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.

Can do for you:

  • Highlight multiple english words on all pages. (whole word matching for english words, currently)
  • Your words will be saved.
  • Needs to refresh opened pages after install this extension.

If you love it, you can support it on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/alexius_lee) or donate via PayPal (https://www.paypal.me/alexiuslee)

Change log:

  • 1.21 - Remove tracelog codes (which has stopped receiving years ago).
  • 1.12~1.20 - Bug fix.
  • 1.11 - Temporary rollback to v1.7.
  • 1.10 - Change: Skip "content editable" elements; Support single letter non-english words.
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