Agreed 100%.
Because in Safari it doesn’t work on all websites, I made ReaderView, an app that does and also saves articles for later plus lets you highlight passages.
Give it a try https://www.appblit.com/readerview
The most underused browser feature: reader mode
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Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
+1 for Edge. Use it on my Macbook and love how it highlights the sentence it is currently reading and scrolls the page down automatically. It is not as good as Google Assistant on android. Google Assistant on android knows to skip past image captions and ads, and it knows when it has reached the end of an article; Edge simply reads everything it sees.
You'd think google would use the same architecture for chrome! I haven't found it to be nearly as useful.
I guess those parts are where Edge cannot use the same services Google uses anyway (since they're not allowed to). And if they have to provide their own TTS anyway, they can just as well improve over Chrome at that point.
Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode
#53I always assumed that Reader Mode was used pretty heavily.
i have read a total of 5 articles with it since introduction decade(s?) ago. The switch is just jarring
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#54I really love the reading the codebases for these, the original Arc90 Readability bookmarklet was really quite...readable when unminified.
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#55reader mode shortcut on ff: ctrl-alt-r
You are a god.
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#56I 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…
Do you know how to enable this in Linux? I don't see a TTS option in reader mode on Firefox.
EDIT: I figured it out. I needed to install speech-dispatcher.
On Ubuntu
> sudo apt install speech-dispatcher
Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode
#57A useful feature of Firefox reader mode on Android is that if you bookmark a page from inside reader mode, Firefox saves it locally and you can go back to it from the bookmarks even when you are offline. I used it to read long web pages (usually fiction) on planes or in the middle of nowhere.
Edit: it works only on older Firefox versions. This feature was removed sometime in the last months.
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#58My most wanted feature for Firefox right now is the ability to right-click (or long-press on mobile) the link and choose "Open Link in Reader mode" exactly like they already offer for "open Link in New Private window".
I think that would be even more important than the Private shortcut, with the amount of unnecessary crap the websites try to cram on your screen.
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#59Nice
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#60Does no one else user reader mode?
I’ve found it the only way to stay sane on sites where ad blockers don’t work.