# Reader

> Reader is the ultimate Reader tool for Firefox.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `reader`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Baris Derin
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,search-tools
- **Daily users:** 4,054
- **Weekly downloads:** 44
- **Rating:** 3.56 / 5 (132 ratings)
- **Version:** 64.1.1resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2010-06-24
- **Size:** 296 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/reader/)

## Description

**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.

## Rankings

- #1,370 — Overall
- #66 — Feeds, News & Blogging
- #152 — Search Tools
- #2 — reader
- #29 — lead
- #34 — header

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

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

### Content script matches

- `*`
- `*.barisderin.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

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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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/reader)