# Romaji Reader

> Unlock Japanese text: This extension provides on-the-fly romaji conversion for a seamless browsing experience.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `romaji-reader`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** exaltedtopaz
- **Category:** language-support
- **Daily users:** 21
- **Weekly downloads:** 7
- **Rating:** 4.50 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.0.1
- **Last updated:** 2025-06-16
- **First published:** 2025-06-13
- **Size:** 15 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/romaji-reader/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/exaltedtopaz/romaji-reader-support/issues](https://github.com/exaltedtopaz/romaji-reader-support/issues)

## Description

This extension converts Japanese scripts (Hiragana, Katakana, and some Kanji) to Romaji. It does not translate Japanese to English.

Privacy policy: 
While this extension does scrape the texts in the sites you visit, it does its conversion locally, which means none of your data is shared anywhere.

## Rankings

- #23,833 — Overall
- #126 — reader
- #126 — scraping
- #159 — conversation
- #239 — header

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `scripting`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## 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/romaji-reader)