tldr.chrome

tldr.chrome keeps summarization inside the browser with almost no interface to learn. You highlight the passage you care about, tap the Enter key twice, and a short summary appears. Because the trigger is keyboard based, the tool fits neatly into an existing reading flow without adding toolbars or pop-ups that get in the way.

The engine behind it is DistilBERT fine-tuned on the CNN news dataset, an architecture chosen for compact size and quick inference rather than maximum fluency. That makes it a good fit for digesting paragraphs of news copy, blog intros, or email threads, where you mainly want the gist extracted fast. Very long documents or highly technical text may fall outside the range the model handles well.

The extension is published on the Chrome Web Store under the developer name ignatif and is offered at no cost, with optional in-app purchases listed. It has a small but real user base and an established, unchanged feature set, which suits people who want a simple, dependable summarizing shortcut instead of a full reading workspace.