Readability based Reader View

Name: Readability based Reader View
Rating: 4.5616 (73 reviews)
Author: tlintspr

strips away clutter like buttons, background images, and changes the page's text size, contrast and layout for better readability. Note: This extension uses the standalone version of Mozilla's Readability library.

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Features & Capabilities

Readability Based Reader View is a powerful Chrome extension that transforms cluttered web pages into clean, easy-to-read articles. Built on Mozilla’s open-source Readability library, it removes buttons, ads, background images, and other distractions, enhancing layout, contrast, and text size for better readability.

Users can toggle between normal and reader views with a simple click or keyboard shortcut, customize the appearance including font and colors, and enjoy additional features like fullscreen mode, text-to-speech (TTS) reading, live HTML editing, saving or printing content, and displaying math formulas with MathJax support. The extension also allows highlighting text, navigating between pages, adding sticky notes, and emailing readable content.

Ideal for heavy content pages, this extension prioritizes user comfort and accessibility while providing an intuitive interface similar to Firefox’s Reader View. With persistent updates and an active feature set, Readability Based Reader View offers a seamless reading experience on Chrome.

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0.6.9 Last updated: 2023-01-14

Version code:

5511926

Creation date:

2018-08-28

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Size:

758.48KB

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Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-14

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Ranking

# 1,805 ▼ 8

Other rankings

#150 in Tabs

#286 in Appearance ▼ 1

#9 in base keyword 14

#31 in reader keyword 72 ▼ 2

#56 in lead keyword 22 ▲ 2

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Developed by:

tlintspr

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/readability-based-reader-view/

Website:

https://add0n.com/chrome-reader-view.html

Permission Change History

2023-01-10: Version 0.5.4 → 0.6.8

Remove Permissions: https://www.ibm.com/demos/*

Add Optional permissions: <all_urls>

Remove Optional permissions: *://*/* webNavigation https://translate.google.com/

2022-10-26: Version 0.5.3 → 0.5.4

Add Permissions: https://www.ibm.com/demos/*

Remove Permissions: https://text-to-speech-demo.ng.bluemix.net/api/v3/*

User Reviews

Most reviewers praise the add-on for highly customizable reader mode and editor features, improved readability over Firefox’s built-in viewer, and the ability to export articles as PDFs or print nicely. It’s also valued for accessibility and for giving control to fetch specific content (useful on forums). The frequent criticism centers on changes to the address-bar icon, plus occasional reliability issues on tricky pages.

Pros

Highly customizable reader mode with strong editor features, and generally an improvement over Firefox's built-in reader view.
Allows exporting or saving articles as PDF/print-friendly versions.
Improves readability and accessibility for users with vision problems.
Reliable and preserves full articles, avoiding content stripping seen in some alternatives.
Offers manual control over the source of fetched data, solving forum-specific extraction issues.

Cons

UI changes to the address bar icon (icon being disabled or altered) are disliked by users.

Recent reviews

by Fi*****, 2026-06-07

by άƈ*****, 2026-03-21

The extension is quite useful, moreover it allows you to actually download a page in PDF

by Fi*****, 2026-03-01

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Is Readability based Reader View Safe?

Risk impact

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

Readability based Reader View requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

Medium Enables sending notifications which can be spammed but have minimal direct security impact.

Risk likelihood

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Readability based Reader View has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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