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Markdown Viewer by Simeon Velichkov

Rated 3.9 out of 5
3.9 Stars out of 5
24 reviews
  • Rated 5 out of 5
    by Amadeo García Torrano, 2 months ago
  • Rated 1 out of 5
    by Firefox user 16266854, 5 months ago
    Rating 1 star because of permissions, this plugin should not require access to all data on all websites.
  • Rated 2 out of 5
    by JonWang, 6 months ago
    works 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 5
    by Firefox user 16142732, 6 months ago
  • Rated 4 out of 5
    by Firefox user 15492198, 8 months ago
    It'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 5
    by Firefox user 13139692, 8 months ago
    Great, but Table of Contents sorely needs a dark option.
  • Rated 4 out of 5
    by Max Yudin, 10 months ago
    The 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 5
    by Szubxero, a year ago
  • Rated 5 out of 5
    by 雷武龍, a year ago
    Markdown瀏覽器用的預覽工具,非常好用,多謝開發者.
  • Rated 3 out of 5
    by Firefox user 15126385, a year ago
    Of 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 a year ago
    The 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 2 out of 5
    by DnC, a year ago
    Still does not support file:// type. sad,
  • Rated 3 out of 5
    by Firefox user 15230443, a year ago
  • Rated 5 out of 5
    by ValentinG_, 2 years ago
  • Rated 5 out of 5
    by Acsor, 2 years ago
    This 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 5
    by Zachary Guo, 2 years ago
    This 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 5
    by Firefox user 14300548, 2 years ago
    Good, but it doesn't correctly interpret code blocks for python

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    PrismJS (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 5
    by Ezio87, 3 years ago
    so good.
  • Rated 5 out of 5
    by Firefox user 14027290, 3 years ago
  • Rated 5 out of 5
    by Firefox user 13746822, 3 years ago
    Simply opened and rendered my file when needed for the local drive. Mission accomplished.
  • Rated 5 out of 5
    by Firefox user 13700888, 3 years ago
    And now it works fine
  • Rated 5 out of 5
    by Rushikesh Tade, 3 years ago
    Thank you so much for this addon :)
  • Rated 5 out of 5
    by Firefox user 12822726, 3 years ago
  • Rated 1 out of 5
    by Firefox user 13549749, 3 years ago
    I did not success to configure the plugin (firefox Quantum), even when declaring the exact markdown complete URL as allowed. Firefox is still proposing for downloading the file, instead of displaying it.

    Either the configuration is too complicated to perform (or too complicated for me) or the module does not work.

    Developer response

    posted 3 years ago
    Currently access to file:// URLs is not supported!
    For the rest of the configuration you can watch this short screencast (only 3 min - no sound):
    https://youtu.be/c7Lb_Y092ok
  • Rated 1 out of 5
    by teknopaul, 3 years ago
    does not work , whats happend has the new FireFox broken viewing content from file:// ?

    Developer response

    posted 3 years ago
    Currently access to file:// URLs is not supported!
    For the rest of the configuration you can watch this short screencast (only 3 min - no sound): https://youtu.be/c7Lb_Y092ok
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