# Smart Hover Reader

> AI summaries of news articles when you hover a link.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `smart-hover-reader`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** rpavic3
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,search-tools
- **Version:** 1.0.2
- **Last updated:** 2025-05-24
- **First published:** 2025-05-19
- **Size:** 153 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/smart-hover-reader/)
- **Website:** [https://rpavic3.github.io/smart-hover-reader/](https://rpavic3.github.io/smart-hover-reader/)

## Description

Smart Hover Reader brings you instant, on-hover summaries of news headlines—no clicking, no clutter:

• One-sentence answers for clickbait
• Up to three concise bullet points for everything else
• Language-aware summaries (Croatian, English, etc.)
• Fully client-side: your data stays local
• User-configurable whitelist of sites  

Simply click the toolbar icon to activate on a domain, then hover over any article link to get the gist in seconds!

## Rankings

- #131,875 — Overall
- #185 — hover

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `tabs`
- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate 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 website URL may be invalid

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