Markdown Reader Chrome extension icon

Markdown Reader

👥 80K+ users
📦 v3.6.7
💾 11.31MiB
📅 2026-02-27
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Blocks out distractions and makes reading Markdown documents a seamless experience with real-time refreshing and centered display. Ideal for developers, writers, and anyone who works with Markdown files, this extension supports various document formats, syntax plugins, and themes to enhance readability. With its intuitive interface and shortcuts, users can quickly preview local and online Markdown files without leaving their browser.

Overview

❗️❗️ Please manually enable the Chrome extension's “Allow access to file URLs” permission before browsing local files. ❗️❗️

Markdown Reader is a powerful browser extension that allows you to preview all kinds of Markdown documents in your browser at great speed!

Features:
- Document formats: Preview file://, http://, https:// protocols, .md, .mkd, .mdx, .markdown and other extensions.
https://example.com/example.md (online Markdown link)
file:///Users/my-project/readme.markdown (local Markdown file, * requires specific permissions to be enabled)
- Syntax Plugins: Support emoticons, superscripts/subscripts, checkboxes, mathematical formulas, flowcharts, Gantt charts, table of contents, insertion of content, abbreviations, comments, reminders, and so on.
- Themes: Provide high-quality dark and light themes and code highlighting.
- Real-time refreshing: support real-time document changes and centered display to improve the reading experience.
- Document Organization: Includes sidebar table of contents, original content preview and image media preview.
- Shortcuts: support for browser extension shortcuts to quickly invoke the function.

❗️❗️ Before browsing [local files], please manually enable the [Allow access to file URLs] permission of the Chrome extension ❗️❗️:

In Chrome Extension Manager, go to the details page of Markdown Reader and enable the “Allow access to file URLs ” option.

I hope Markdown Reader helps you :)

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