Reader

Name: Reader
Rating: 3.5606 (132 reviews)
Author: Baris Derin

By: Baris Derin

Reader is the ultimate Reader tool for Firefox.

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Features & Capabilities

Reader is the ultimate reading tool designed for Firefox, providing a personalized and distraction-free reading environment. It allows you to customize your reading pane with any font from your operating system, select from 16 million colors for text, backgrounds, and anchors, and adjust layouts to suit your preferences. With features like auto-scroll, efficient printing to save resources, and the ability to select and read specific sections via context menu, Reader enhances your web content consumption.

Easy to activate via toolbar icons or keyboard shortcuts, Reader simplifies web pages instantly, making reading comfortable and accessible. It also offers seamless mail and print options, customizable toolbar placement, and quick exit from reader mode. Based on Gabriel Coarna's Readable bookmarklet, Reader transforms any website's text into a clean and user-friendly format for better readability.

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Version:

64.1.1resigned1 Last updated: 2024-04-25

Version code:

5726036

Creation date:

2010-06-24

Risk:

Permissions:

tabs
storage
management
contextMenus
<all_urls>
http://*/*
https://*/*

Content scripts matches:

*
*.barisderin.com

Size:

296.27KB

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Add-ons Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-14

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 1,305 ▼ 4

Other rankings

#60 in Feeds, News & Blogging

#139 in Search Tools

#2 in reader keyword 72

#27 in lead keyword 22 ▼ 2

#30 in header keyword 43 ▼ 1

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Developed by:

Baris Derin

Firefox Add-ons Store

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/reader/

User Reviews

The Reader Firefox add-on offers a distraction-free reading experience appreciated by many desktop users. However, multiple users report significant limitations, especially on Android, such as no customization options and partial content display. Accessing styling options on desktop is often confusing or blocked by other extensions. Additionally, some critical elements like headlines and links sometimes fail to appear or function properly. While it aids focused reading for many, these issues hamper usability across platforms.

Pros

Provides a clear and distraction-free reader view for web content.
Useful for controlling and customizing content visibility during reading.
Has been reliable and well-liked by some users over time.
Works well on desktop platforms in displaying readable content.

Cons

Limited or no customization options in Android version, including font and background colors.
Reader view sometimes only displays visible portion of the page, requiring repeated activation to read entire content.
Lack of easily accessible styling and customization options on desktop; users struggle to find or access them.
In-document links often do not work within the reader view, hindering navigation.
Some users report important content like headlines, dates, or bylines missing in reader mode, making it less useful for news stories.

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Is Reader 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.

Reader requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Risk likelihood

Risk likelihood measures the probability that a Firefox add-on may turn malicious. This is determined by the publisher and the Firefox add-on reputation on Firefox Add-ons Store, the amount of time the Firefox add-on has been around, and other signals about the Firefox add-on. Our algorithms are not perfect, and are subject to change as we discover new ways to detect malicious extensions. We recommend that you always exercise caution when installing a Firefox add-on.

Reader 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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