Transform your web novel reading experience with Smart Novel Reader & Auto Next — an intelligent, distraction-free reader mode and automated text-to-speech (TTS) engine designed specifically for serialized web fiction.
🌟 Key Features:
📖 Immersive Distraction-Free Reader Mode:
Instantly strips away ads, sidebar clutter, and intrusive scripts, presenting novel chapters in a clean, customizable typography layout (Dark, Sepia, Light, OLED Black).
🗣 Custom Pronunciation Fixer:
Easily correct mispronounced novel names, translated terminology, acronyms, or unwanted text. Highlight any word or open the Pronunciation Manager in the popup to set custom phonetic speech rules.
⏭ Zero-Friction Continuous Reading & Auto Next Chapter:
Automatically detects sequential chapter progression across popular novel sites (#next_url, Next Chapter, rel="next", and algorithmic URL patterns), transitioning seamlessly from one chapter to the next.
🎙 Single-Active-Tab Audio Control:
Eliminates accidental duplicate audio playback by enforcing a single active reading session across browser tabs.
⏯ Granular Media Transport Controls:
Floating transport deck with quick skip controls (-5w, +5w, Prev Sentence, Next Sentence, Prev Paragraph, Next Paragraph, Prev Chapter, Next Chapter).
🚫 Passage Ignore Rules:
Block translator notes, sponsor messages, or repetitive chapter headers from being read aloud across all chapters.
📌 Auto-Save & Seamless Resume:
Remembers your exact reading progress down to the paragraph so you can pick up right where you left off.
🛡 Permissions Justification
Permission Purpose / Justification
storage Required to save user preferences locally (speech rate, voice preference, custom pronunciation rules, ignored passage rules, and reading bookmark positions).
activeTab Required to extract chapter text and render the distraction-free reader overlay on the tab the user is actively viewing.
scripting Used to inject the reader overlay and content tokenizer when the user activates reader mode or speech playback.
contextMenus Adds convenient right-click options ("Speak from Selected Text", "Fix Pronunciation", and "Ignore Passage Across Chapters").

Unified Extension Identity & Branding:
Synchronized the extension name to "Smart Novel Reader & Auto Next" across all browser manifests (manifest.json), toolbar tooltips (default_title), and the extension popup (popup.html).
Ensured 100% consistency between the AMO Store listing title and the installed browser add-on to eliminate user confusion.
AMO Review & Store Compliance:
Aligned internal metadata with Mozilla Add-ons store policies for title consistency.
Verified package compliance using Mozilla’s official addons-linter (0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 notices).
In-Reader UI & Notification Refinements:
Standardized all console logs and floating in-reader status alerts to the Smart Novel Reader namespace.
Refined notification messages when waiting for dynamic client-side JavaScript chapters to load.