# Readhook Reading

> Your eyes can "skip" over the words and text with Readhook. Like a surfboard that only glides on the waves' crests. Readhook is a new way for making reading easier by using artificial fixation points to guide the gaze through text.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `readhook-tool`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Alyosha Mikhailov
- **Category:** appearance
- **Daily users:** 59
- **Rating:** 3.67 / 5 (3 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.6
- **Last updated:** 2022-05-24
- **First published:** 2021-12-31
- **Size:** 35 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/readhook-tool/)

## Description

Readhook Reading is a new Firefox add-on that makes reading easier by using artificial fixation points to guide the gaze through text. This innovative approach fosters more in-depth reading and understanding of written content in a digital environment that often promotes shallow reading.

## Rankings

- #14,868 — Overall
- #25 — hesitate
- #77 — benefit
- #77 — loading
- #77 — trading
- #81 — appreciate

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `<all_urls>`
- `tabs`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High 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/readhook-tool)