# Page Plain Text

> Firefox Add-on that shows page plain text

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/page-plain-text](https://chrome-stats.com/d/page-plain-text)

## Overview

- **ID:** `page-plain-text`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Vincenzo De Vivo
- **Category:** download-management
- **Daily users:** 220
- **Weekly downloads:** 10
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (4 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2023-07-21
- **First published:** 2023-07-21
- **Size:** 1.08 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-14
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/page-plain-text/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/deltavi/firefox-addon-plain-text](https://github.com/deltavi/firefox-addon-plain-text)

## Description

**Page Plain Text** is a Firefox add-on designed to simplify your web browsing by displaying only the plain text of any webpage. It removes all formatting and advertising, allowing you to focus solely on the content. The extension offers useful features like text editing, selection extraction, and the ability to download or copy the plain text for use in other documents. Additionally, it includes zoom in/out controls (Ctrl + ±) to adjust text size and a dark mode for comfortable reading in low-light environments.

With an intuitive contextual menu, users can quickly copy or download the current page's plain text, streamlining productivity and content extraction. Whether you need clean text for research, writing, or archiving, Page Plain Text provides a straightforward and powerful tool to manage webpage content efficiently. Visit the developer's homepage or GitHub for more information and support.

## Rankings

- #7,921 — Overall
- #72 — page
- #98 — web page
- #104 — text-to-image
- #156 — speech to text
- #180 — summarize text

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `activeTab`
- `scripting`
- `contextMenus`
- `downloads`
- `clipboardWrite`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low 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/page-plain-text)