Reviews for Markdown Viewer
Markdown Viewer by simov
53 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Pydawan, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16862528, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Aakash, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SuperHarmony910, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Amadeo García Torrano, 4 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16266854, 4 years agoRating 1 star because of permissions, this plugin should not require access to all data on all websites.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoIt does not require any permissions by default. It's a bug in the way Mozilla detects the optional permissions inside the extension's manifest file. Those permissions are optional and they still require a user consent, meaning I cannot enable them in the background to access your data on all sites without you knowing about it. Plus the extension only looks for markdown files, the source code is not GitHub .. - Rated 2 out of 5by JonWang, 4 years agoworks great in chrome, but apparently does not support in firefox 77.0.1, i want to use this amazing dark themes in firefox, pls fix it
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16142732, 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15492198, 5 years agoIt's an excellant addon,but the support of printing page is poor .the page rendered by this plugin can not be printed completely.
这个扩展很好用,但是对打印的支持不尽如人意。这个插件渲染的页面无法被完整地打印。 - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13139692, 5 years agoGreat, but Table of Contents sorely needs a dark option.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Max Yudin, 5 years agoThe same problem with the plugin on KDE. In spite of the [MIME solution by Firefox user 15126385](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/markdown-viewer-chrome/reviews/1453572/) works perfectly, I have to refresh the page or change any of settings to see the content instead of blank page.
Plugin v. 3.8
Firefox v. 74.0
P.S. That solution for KDE should have appearance in the Documentation. - Rated 5 out of 5by Szubxero, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Ziah, 5 years agoOf all the markdown extensions I like the way this one looks the most. I'm bummed that it totally doesn't work.
Just getting file:// URLs to open in firefox is a huge pain. Whenever I open markdown files, Firefox just wants to download them. See here to fix: https://superuser.com/questions/696361/how-to-get-the-markdown-viewer-addon-of-firefox-to-work-on-linux/1175837#1175837
Edit: This isn't the fault of the extension
The way the superuser article fixes the problem involves making all markdown files part of the text/plain mimetype but other apps on KDE (and possibly other 'DEs) use the text/markdown mimetype differently than text/plain. So I went into about:config and changed helpers.private_mime_types_file to a custom file (e.g. ~/.firefox-mime.types) to separate firefox's mimetypes from the rest of my system. I then added "text/plain md markdown" in that file. The problem is due to the way firefox handles files and mimetypes.
Edit: Again, this isn't a problem with the extension but does make it tricky to set up.
With this extension, when I open a markdown page, about half the time I just get a blank white page and half the time I see the file. Whenever I enable markdown or change markdown settings, the page reloads and I almost always get back to the blank white page.
When I open the addon's settings page, there are some pretty bad graphical glitches, everything is squished together and the bottom border just keeps slowly inching farther and farther down my screen.Developer response
posted 5 years agoThe file:// URL issue is related to how Firefox handles markdown mime types. So unless Firefox do something about it I can do little, reminder, this is a Browser Extension for Firefox > 57, meaning that I don't have unrestricted access to the user's system.
About the blank page issue, that was caused by interference with other extensions and it was fixed on Chrome, I just have to publish the new version here.
About the settings page, you have to open it from the extension's popup in a separate window. The advanced options page is not optimized for the Firefox builtin extensions view.
EDIT: The 'Blank Page Issue' should be fixed now in v3.8 - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15230443, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ValentinG_, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Acsor, 6 years agoThis addon does more than I expected it would. Being able to set a great variety of themes (incuded a dark one) is a great plus.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Zachary Guo, 6 years agoThis add-on is a subsitution of https://addons.mozilla.org/zh-CN/firefox/addon/markdown-viewer/?src=search
Unfortunately, that author didn't maintain the add-on, but It can open markdown files in a Frame, this is the most important reason for I still stay on Firefox 56 and not upgrade to Firefox Quantum.
Simeon Velichkov's markdown-viewer is compatible with Firefox Quantum, But it can not display markdown in a Frame, can you solve this problem? - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14300548, 6 years agoGood, but it doesn't correctly interpret code blocks for python
Developer response
posted 6 years agoPrismJS (https://prismjs.com) is responsible for the syntax highlighting, so in case there is a problem with it you have to ask for help there. I can only bump the version in my extension if they have a fix. Other than that fenced code blocks should be used as usual - ```python - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14027290, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13746822, 7 years agoSimply opened and rendered my file when needed for the local drive. Mission accomplished.