Optimize any website for legibility and reading: clear spaced font, nice contrast, zen focus & night dark mode. Simple & lightweight
Minimal Reading Mode Extension
Font size, color, typography, margins, line-heights and spacings, all have been analyzed and tested for more than two years to find the best reading experience on your screen, activating the latest typography rendering technology to smooth fonts and optimize legibility. Minimal Reading Mode keeps getting updated with tweaks and optimizations as new technology becomes available.
✪✪ FEATURES ✪✪
✪ Night Dark Modes
There's 3 Dark Mode themes available, featuring a black background design and eliminating blue colors to avoid eye strain and improve your sleep. You can switch amongst all the different themes.
✪ Image and media minification
Images and other media found on the article are resized to a tiny square so it doesn't distract you from reading. To see the image/media at full size, simply move your cursor over it. This feature also becomes a great SFW (Safe For Work) solution when reading articles with dubious content.
✪ Custom settings
Tweak your reading experience to your specific liking by choosing paragraph width, font size, font and background colors, font typography, line height, letter spacing and more. Settings are saved between sessions.
✪ Automatic Scroll to content
ReadingMode will detect where the article starts and autoscroll to its title.
✪ Works on all websites
Not just blog articles, any website can be enhanced for legibility.
✪ Super lightweight, CPU friendly
ReadingMode is the lightest readability/legibility Chrome extension at less than 19KB, passive loading and no memory hogging.
✪ Automatic Clean-up
Removes parts of the website that are repetitive and not interesting so that you don't lose focus, including Ads.
✪✪ HOW IT WORKS ✪✪
While on any website, click the red icon of a book on the status bar and the website will be automatically optimized for reading. You don't need to setup anything else although moving your mouse at the top right of the page a few buttons will appear to tweak font size, width, theme and full screen mode.
To revert back to the original website simply refresh the page.
✪✪ FREE & OPEN SOURCE ✪✪
Minimal Reading Mode is open-source and also available as a bookmarklet here:
https://gist.github.com/luckyshot/8a28768ae0f7035146946272563d8863
Source Manifest.json
How to download and manually install Minimal Reading Mode extension for Chrome
Looking for a way to install Minimal Reading Mode extensions for Chrome, you can search for them in the Chrome Web Store, clicking the "Add to Chrome" button, and following the straightforward process.
However, you may need to install Minimal Reading Mode extensions manually, this article outlines two simple methods to effortlessly install Minimal Reading Mode extensions, whether they come as unpacked folders in compressed formats like .zip or as .crx files.
Method 1: Download Minimal Reading Mode extension and manually install through Drag &Drop
If you ever need to manually install a Minimal Reading Mode extension for Chrome, don't worry, it's a simple process. Just follow these easy steps, and you will have your extension ready to use in no time.
Step 1: Download the Minimal Reading Mode Extension by clicking the "Download CRX" button on the website.
Look for the Minimal Reading Mode extension you wish to install. Go to the website and download the Minimal Reading Mode extension package, which is usually a .CRX file and comes in a zipped file. Here ".crx" file is the format for Minimal Reading Mode extension that contains all the data.
Step 2: Extract &Arrange Files
Once the file is downloaded, extract that file into its own folder. Similarly, give that extension files a permanent home. In other words, keep it in a folder that you don't accidentally delete it because these files will be needed to make that extension work.
Step 3: Go to the Chrome Extensions Page
Open Google Chrome and in the address bar, type chrome://extensions; it will open the Google Chrome extensions page. Make sure that "My extensions" is selected in the sidebar.
Step 4: Drag and Drop the Extension
Now, go to the folder where you extracted the Minimal Reading Mode extension and drag &drop the extension file from there anywhere onto the extension page within Google Chrome.
Step 5: Complete the Installation
Once you drag and drop the extension file, follow the steps that Google Chrome takes you through. Similarly, if the extension file is of .crx file format, you will be required to review the permissions and then add the extension.
Now, you can manage that added extension as you would like to with any other Chrome extension that you added through Chrome Webstore. Its icon will also appear in the Google Chrome Menu on the right side of the address bar once you activate it.
Method 2: Download Minimal Reading Mode extension for Chrome and install in Developer Mode
This is another method to install Minimal Reading Mode extension manually, but the twist is that here, you install by enabling the developer mode option provided in Google Chrome. This mode is commonly used for testing extensions or running unpublished tools.
Step 1: Download the Minimal Reading Mode extension file
Select and download the Minimal Reading Mode extension by clicking the 'Download CRX' button on the website.
Step 2: Extract the downloaded contents
Convert the file to a ZIP file if it is in CRX format then extract the Minimal Reading Mode extension zip file or folder that you downloaded. Make sure you extract it using the same folder name and keep it safely in another folder, so you don't delete it by mistake. The extracted folder will be needed to keep your Minimal Reading Mode extension running.
Step 3: Open Chrome Extension Setting Page
In the address bar of Google Chrome, type chrome://extensions and open the Chrome Extension Page.
Step 4: Enable Developer Mode
After opening the Chrome Extension page, look at the top right side, and you will find the toggle option of "Developer mode."Simply enable that developer mode option.
Step 5: Load the Unpacked Extension
Once you enable the developer mode option, you will see the menu of Load Unpacked, Pack Extensions and Update. From that, select the option "Load unpacked."
Step 6: Select the Extension Folder
Once the pop-up opens upon clicking Load unpacked, select the Minimal Reading Mode extension directory and click on the "Select Folder "button.
Step 7: Confirm and Install
After you select an extension folder of a Google Chrome extension you're installing manually, confirm its installation for the final time and let the installation complete.
Conclusion
Here we've made a step-by-step guide on How to manually install Minimal Reading Mode extension in 2 ways. We hope this guide proves helpful.
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