Tired of cluttered web pages full of commericals? Best Reader View cleans all up and renders the only main article of the page!

Latest Version

Version
1.2.7
Update
May 13, 2021
Size
102KiB
Developer
Category
Users
7,000+
Rating
4.70175 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
Storage
ActiveTab
Chrome://favicon/
ContextMenus
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Best Reader View Extension

Main features:

1. Beautifully rendered pages that rivals that of Safari.
2. Many different options like font, size, themes to choose from.
3. Open Best Reader automatically as you wish.
4. Take notes or highlight selections.
5. The awesome Focus Mode let you view the content in its original page.
6. Save page to pdf or print use Chrome's print command.
7. Your data is safe! All processing is done locally in Chrome. No history is sent out to network.
8. Providing share functionality to twitter and facebook on highlighting the text.

Best Reader View is based on Firefox's open source Readability module, with heavy pre and post processing. It renders web pages better than Firefox's owner reader mode view!. The UX is modeled after Safari's reader view. With Best Reader View, you get the best features out of the two other leading browsers.
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Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "name": "Best Reader View", "short_name": "Reader", "version": "1.2.7", "description": "Tired of cluttered web pages full of commericals? Best Reader View cleans all up and renders the only main article of the page!", "permissions": [ "storage", "activeTab", "chrome://favicon/", "contextMenus" ], "background": { "persistent": false, "page": "background.html" }, "browser_action": { "default_popup": "popup.html", "default_title": "Best Reader View", "default_icon": { "32": "images/icon-text-32-2.png", "64": "images/icon-text-64-2.png" } }, "content_scripts": [ { "matches": [ "*://*/*" ], "js": [ "minis/Readability.min.js", "minis/Readability-readerable.min.js", "minis/yamd5.min.js", "images/svgs.js", "auto-reader.js", "always-start-reader.js", "note-highlight-store.js", "signin.js", "content.js" ], "css": [ "content.css", "signin.css" ], "run_at": "document_idle" } ], "web_accessible_resources": [ "images/*.png" ], "options_page": "options.html", "icons": { "32": "images/icon-text-32.png", "64": "images/icon-text-64.png", "128": "images/icon-store-128.png" }, "content_security_policy": "img-src chrome://favicon https://upload.wikimedia.org; script-src 'self' https://www.gstatic.com/ https://*.firebaseio.com https://www.googleapis.com https://apis.google.com; object-src 'self'", "manifest_version": 2, "oauth2": { "client_id": "283963152595-36etu9l60le171l15kdn9rqcvq0tdeh2.apps.googleusercontent.com", "scopes": [ "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email", "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile" ] }, "key": "MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAlvycjmzN4iVTgbo3ff1BI+u8W2u3tDTyNc/8YJjlecwbYR6yT/oQbmuEhFGx4SQs0//BsmOUOWYZu+zFGM7NyTbR6lQltk33wRv0HzcKp89JW65/W4eYVqgp0YfuAVDL4RASBiDVobI3n1IB9amCep8HPU2GBSHl4Nwvvhp7bESTE0xsI16eI9UrXM9sSSS70eW60zwAARx4DlLNXWWQJR9QoJqYThmpsY/reoK6RdKikJ0Hyk4V4+YKBT1gS12D04Owulh/4joh/znpHEpXlOtYrOmZ5fdmGq7NwDvnS0LxO7mpspXA38+g5z5avX1n+yLZ//Sbsx82xRb0a7R1EwIDAQAB"}
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User reviews

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Ire E. (ID: 0000006e01936541) Voted 3 ★ - Updated 07/16/2024 It's good enough, but it has an annoying bug or feature: When I click outside the content area, the reading mode closes. And it makes me lost the reading position.

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why (ID: 0000006f9502286e) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 10/07/2023 the best read mode extension. it would be very nice if this can keep usable.

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Pat MySecret (ID: 0000000f565a0b8a) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 08/29/2023 Love the simplicity that this Reader view will let you add a domain to auto load with! One drawback: I couldn't copy/paste from.. even when using keyboard shortcuts Workaround: added the extension Superior Allow Copy Does a nice job of highlighting, adding notes, etc.

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Sergio Henrique da Silva Pereira (ID: 000000c1a74f2035) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 08/22/2023 Ótima extensão. Facilita a leitura ao destacar somente o texto.

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Fabian Diaz (ID: 000000cd5fb6cd64) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 07/28/2023 Super effective and beautiful.