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Markdown Reader

https://md-reader.github.io/
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Nicolas Alessandra Oct 6, 2025

Finally a real good Markdown reader on Chrome!

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Marty Schrader Oct 2, 2025

This add-on works just fine -- until you need it. That's when you find out the scummy vermin publishers want some periodic dough. Please, Google, police these scumbags and list software as a service as such.

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Benja Van Developer Oct 2, 2025

You’re not even a long-term user, so how could you possibly know that the extension I’ve maintained for seven years has always been free? Even after launching the subscription model, only two optional “nice-to-have” new features are offered at the lowest price, while all the previously free features remain free. I honestly don’t know what rights of yours have been infringed. Do you often donate to developers of open-source apps? Would you quit your job and spend all your time maintaining a free project? Have you ever developed and maintained a free app for over seven years, powered purely by passion, only to get cursed at in the middle of the night? Do you eat for free? Did you pick up your phone or computer off the street? If a feature doesn’t work well, you’re more than welcome to give me suggestions—I’ll optimize and improve it. Even without paying, it won’t affect your daily use of this extension. But throwing insults at a developer who’s kept your tools free for years doesn’t make you look righteous, just entitled.

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Jakub Orłowski Sep 12, 2025

Good plugin! But how do I get Polish characters in the font?

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Miloš Tanasijević Jul 14, 2025

It used to work great, but now fails on every file with "couldn't fetch". I would have gladly paid for the feature since it used to be amazing, but the update which included registration broke the literal core functionality of the extension, which is unacceptable. And yes I did "Allow access to file Urls" - As I said it did work great previously. I appreciate everyone's effort but monetization must not interfere with the basic functionality. Guess Vibe coding without testing tends to do that... Show more

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Benja Van Developer Jul 14, 2025

If you have any questions, please let me know. I have provided various ways for feedback. Also, do not casually define a program as being AI-generated, as this can be quite offensive. Before each release, I will conduct rigorous tests and use it to ensure that the basic functions can operate normally. The latest version is functioning properly on both of my devices (MacOS & Windows), and recently there haven't been many users reporting the issue you mentioned. If you can't preview each file, please disable the extension and check if the raw content of the "xx.md" file can be loaded normally by the browser (this is the prerequisite for the extension to perform the preview). Secondly, please check if the "automatic refresh" function is enabled. This requires the background to periodically request the original file address to obtain the latest content and display it on the page. If the background request is blocked by the browser, obtaining the file content will fail, which is very similar to the problem you described where each file cannot be opened. Please disable the "automatic refresh" function and try again. What you need to do is provide more information to help solve the problem, rather than like a Big Baby here. This won't be of any help in advancing the issue.

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weichao wu Jun 10, 2025

nice

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i u May 28, 2025

My best markdown viewer! Thank you!

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Dean A May 9, 2025

Wonderful. I now open all my md docs with chrome by default because the ext kicks in. Lightweight, readable. Not like all that other 100mb clunky open source junk i tried before.

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Paul Keser Mar 21, 2025

Rendered md I copied from ChatGPT perfectly.

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Lorand Tompa Feb 19, 2025

This is excellent work! I love the design. Could you share the CSS file so that the HTML output (e.g., from Pandoc) maintains the same style? Thanks!

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Benja Van Developer Feb 19, 2025

Thank you for the kind words! I’m glad you like the design of Markdown Reader. Most of the theme styles used in Markdown Reader are stored in the https://github.com/md-reader/theme repository. I hope this helps!

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Mohamed Be Jan 29, 2025

good and easy to use

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