# Simba Text Assistant

> The Simba Text Assistant improves your reading experience by providing a simplified summary of webpages. Der Simba Text Assistent verbessert Ihr Leseerlebnis, indem er eine vereinfachte Zusammenfassung von Webseiten liefert.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/simba-text-assistant](https://chrome-stats.com/d/simba-text-assistant)

## Overview

- **ID:** `simba-text-assistant`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Simba Team (HIIG)
- **Category:** language-support,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 13
- **Version:** 1.0.3
- **Last updated:** 2024-06-19
- **First published:** 2023-05-31
- **Size:** 50 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/simba-text-assistant/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/fhewett/simba](https://github.com/fhewett/simba)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/simba-text-assistant/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/simba-text-assistant/privacy/)

## Description

Simba Text Assistant is a Firefox add-on that produces summaries of web page text. It offers extractive summaries, where important sentences are highlighted, and abstractive summaries, where a new coherent text is generated. Improve your online reading with Simba Text Assistant.

## Rankings

- #30,018 — Overall
- #106 — assistant

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`

### Host permissions

- `https://simba.publicinterest.ai/*`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate 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/simba-text-assistant)