With just one single click, you can remove clutter, ads and distractions from any articles, thus improving your readability and productivity. Here’s the highlight of what this extension can do/offers:
It comes with dyslexia support, text annotating and highlighting, text-to-speech and many other customization tools.
Here’s the quick highlights of what it has and can do:
- Distraction-free and ad-free "Reader Mode"
- Theme customization
- Custom CSS
- Print pages
- Fullscreen mode
- Auto-run ability
- Deletion of unwanted elements
- Save edited pages
- Share To Twitter
- Dyslexia Fonts
- Dyslexia Ruler
- Text To Speech
- Outlines
- Text annotating and highlighting
- Note List
- Auto-scroll functionality
- Dark Panel Mode
- Google Search
- Google Translate
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No worries at all! Ah I see, let me know if there's any any specific features that you want. IMO, you should give it a try as it is more than just a Reader View like the one in firefox as it has many more features, especially the Dyslexia features that you just mention :)
Just a nitpick: when trying to test it with a Medium article, I was already a few paragraphs down when I clicked on "Not interested" (for now) in the popup. This scrolled the page back to the top.
It's against HN's rules to ask friends to upvote and (especially) to post comments in threads. We want people to upvote and comment because they ran across something that they personally found intellectually interesting, not because a friend has something to promote. Promotional use of HN voting and commenting is opposed to the spirit of the site, and the community is adamantly against it, as you can see from the comments making objections to the earlier pattern in the thread.
Thank you for drawing this line clearly. Frequently elsewhere I see mods decrying self-promotion, yet there should be nothing wrong with posting your own material (otherwise, what is the internet for, only consumption?). The problem comes when you beg people from outside the community to give you recognition through forced comments/votes.
I’ve been using this extension for a couple weeks and it does everything I want it to. My favorite/most-used feature is the customizable font and background colors. I’m glad you give your users granular control.
The definitive method to locate the profile directory would be to visit the about:support page in Firefox, and check the value of the property Profile Folder.
2. Within the above identified profile directory, open the sub-directory chrome. If a chrome sub-directory does NOT exist within the profile directory, create it.
3. In the above chrome directory, create an empty file userContent.css.
4. Open the above userContent.css and add the following lines to it :
.moz-reader-content {
text-align: justify;
}
5. Force custom stylesheets
Visit the about:config page in Firefox, search for the property toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets, and ensure it is toggled to True.
6. Restart Firefox.
7. Open a page, switch to reader mode, and enjoy the justified text!! \(^.^)/
This functionality has been baked in Firefox for a long time and I use it quite often. Not only makes the ads and other clutter disappear, but it also removes most of the "disable your adblock" unclosable popups.
It is definitely one of the super-nice things to have baked in straight in the browser, and probably one of the major differences I see between Chrome and Firefox in day-to-day usage. I just wish that somehow it was persistent for certain rules, but I can see how that is a slippery slope.
Chrome has had a builtin DOM distiller for a while (not sure if still guarded by an experimental flag, on my phone now so can’t check), but it’s primitive and worst of all reloads the page on exit.
I can confirm that it's still loaded by an experimental flag. As a word of warning to anyone who wants to try it: the design isn't suited for reading at length (120 character line width, set in Courier). It's really not that great.
Firefox and Safari have decent reading modes, though.
Um, it’s not? Chrome 78 on macOS here, text is rendered in 14px Roboto, content box width is 75% (on 2560px viewport). I find it fairly pleasant to read, my only problem is page reloading on exit as I already mentioned.
Edit: The mode is gone after updating to 79, seems to be gated by a command line switch now. What the hell.
Ah, I stand corrected. The content box width is indeed based on the viewport size. My text, however, is still rendered in 14px Courier on macOS (and even given a .monospace class), so I'm not sure what's going on there.
Not only the readability mode of Firefox is awesome, but they've also opensourced it separately, in case you feel you can submit a PR for a persistence of some kind or create your own extension that makes use of it.
I don't see this feature in firefox. If the Firfox team put effort into the ui and feature discoverability it would make it much simpler for a chrome user to switch.
It's visible only in article-like pages and it looks like a document icon in the navbar.
In Firefox for Android is the only non-essential icon in the navbar (besides the tabs and more settings) for articles. On desktop it shows at the right on the search/url box.
This example from homepage which shows techcrunch article side by side with plugin's output doesn't look good to me. To be honest I'm finding TC article formatting and font size much better to read (ads are not visible with ublock), in addition publication date and author is displayed.
Ah i see. Ok, will consider changing the example soon. But if you are using the plugin, you could cuztomize everything (fonts/background/width/colors etc.), and also you could turn the date, author and original url on/off.
Hi the PRO version is $20(or $15 now), as it is a one time fee for a limited license, eg. 1/5/10. Meanwhile the education is $99/month as it gives you Unlimited Licence.
Safari has this feature built in as well. It is particularly useful on mobile devices. It will even follow Next Page type links to condense a multi-page article into a single scrolling page.
I find it somewhat ironic that Reader Mode's own site is filled with large images, tiny pop-out boxes, and a tweet carousel. But it certainly isn't the worst product website I have seen.
The font is not called "OpenDyslexics", it's "OpenDyslexic". Also, it's kind of odd to say you support multiple dyslexic-friendly fonts when it's really just one font in bold/italics/mono. Perhaps some people would consider mono to be its own font (though I've never known anyone who preferred OD Mono, and I work in the accessibility world). But for sure bold and italic are not considered to be separate fonts by lay people.
Seems great, trying it now. A good few of these comments and upvotes seem to be from ops friends. (Based off a quick twitter search). Nothing wrong with that
Yes, there's something with getting friends to upvote and (especially) to post comments in threads. We want people to upvote and comment because they ran across something that they personally found intellectually interesting, not because a friend has something to promote. Promotional use of HN undermines the intended use of the site, which is why these behaviors are against the rules:
It comes with dyslexia support, text annotating and highlighting, text-to-speech and many other customization tools.
Here’s the quick highlights of what it has and can do:
- Distraction-free and ad-free "Reader Mode"
- Theme customization
- Custom CSS
- Print pages
- Fullscreen mode
- Auto-run ability
- Deletion of unwanted elements
- Save edited pages
- Share To Twitter
- Dyslexia Fonts
- Dyslexia Ruler
- Text To Speech
- Outlines
- Text annotating and highlighting
- Note List
- Auto-scroll functionality
- Dark Panel Mode
- Google Search
- Google Translate
You can use "hackernews20" code at checkout to get 20% discount :)
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