Also a neat way to scrape some sites, big love for readability.
The most underused browser feature: reader mode
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Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode
#42Just tried it on chrome mobile. The only way to make it always there is to change the triggering mode to always. Which means an annoying popup at the bottom. And the output of it is usually not helpful. Only works on (some) things that look like an article. Otherwise, it's truncated content.
Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode
#43I love reader mode in Firefox. It will also do text to speech for you. The voices seem to dependent on something built into the OS. They sound okay on windows and I haven't figured out how to get them to sound good on linux. On windows the voices sound good, but I Wish I could get it to go a little faster. The voices don't sound human so it takes some getting used to. On linux the voices just sound more harsh. To the…
One of the little feature of reader mode I love is, if you time it correctly (before loading all javascript of the page) you can skip a lot of prompts ( subscribe to read / monthly limit reached and so on )
Try hard refreshing the page after you're in reader mode.
Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode
#44I might be the minority here, but this is why I use Edge on Windows. It's, basically, Chrome with a reader mode.
Chrome apparently has a flag for this under chrome://flags/#enable-reader-mode
I tried flag in Brave ("brave://") but it is not working. Works great in Firefox.
Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode
#45Sadly Tridactyl (vim keybindings for Firefox) doesn't work in reader mode, which really breaks the flow of my usual scrolling/tab-switching with vim keys. This, and the pdf reader tabs kill me because of it
How much do you care? There's an open pull request you could give a little time to that would fix it by integrating a reader mode into Tridactyl here: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/pull/3306
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Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode
#46reader mode shortcut on ff: ctrl-alt-r
TIL!
Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode
#47It's the only way to visit sites like medium.com ;P
Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode
#48It’s good for night time reading too (i.e. it obeys dark mode), it’s a shame hacker news doesn’t seem to work with Safari’s reader mode though I guess it’s designed for article pages!
Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode
#49I use it daily to deal with the epidemic of hard to read too low-contrast websites, which this article is ironically guilty of.
Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode
#50I think I have to share my incredulation; I always use Reader Mode on Safari iOS: lots of sites are quite literally unreadable otherwise.
And, in both macOS and iOS Safari, you have a per-website-setting to request reader view automatically. It's great.