Reader Mode

Clear the clutter from webpages including ads, cookie notices, popups

Downloads

Chrome Web Store

Firefox Add-ons

Opera Add-ons

Ms Edge Add-ons

Safari Extensions

Features

• Disable surrounding webpage noise and clutter with one click, including:
  • Cookie notices
  • Ads
  • Popups
  • Comments
  • And a host of other distracting elements
• Send To Kindle functionality
• Adjust typeface and text size, and toggle between light or dark themes
• Quick keyboard shortcut (Cmd + Esc for Mac users, Alt + ` for Windows users) to switch to Reader on any article page
• Printing optimization
• Sharing through Facebook, Twitter and Email

Project setup

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build extension for development, watch for file changes and rebuild.
node tools/esbuild watch

# Generate compliant images assets for logo (default logo location src/assets/logo.png)
node tools/esbuild generateIcons

# Translate app strings to all supported chrome locales
node tools/esbuild translate

# Start an instance of Chromium with extension installed (using puppeteer)
# For Firefox, pass --browser=firefox as argument.
node tools/esbuild start 

# Build and package extension into a store-ready upload
node tools/esbuild --prod 

# Create extension package for Firefox/Opera/Edge by specifying --browser argument
node tools/esbuild --prod --browser=firefox

# Run tests
node tools/esbuild test

Install Locally

Chrome

1. Open chrome and navigate to extensions page using this URL: chrome://extensions.
2. Enable the "Developer mode".
3. Click "Load unpacked extension" button, browse the build/chrome-dev directory and select it.

Firefox

1. Open firefox and navigate to about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox.
2. Click the "Load Temporary Add-on" button.
3. Browse the build/firefox-dev directory and select the manifest.json file.