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.

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"}

Best Reader View

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

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