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The most underused browser feature: reader mode

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Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode

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post #11

I think I have to share my incredulation; I always use Reader Mode on Safari iOS: lots of sites are quite literally unreadable otherwise.

Quick tip on Safari iOS Reader View:

Click and hold the 'aA' button on the address bar and it will go straight to reader view without you having to go through the menu and selecting it.

Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode

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I love the reader modes accross the different browsers. Especially Safary Mobile does a really good job, i.e. even expands the partitioned articles from golem.de into one single page.

What slightly but consistently bothers me, is that the reader view in Firefox has very little customization options and (in my eyes) doesn't look very appealing. They should let a designer improve the stylesheet. You also cannot force the reader mode like in Pocket.

I also want to mention the instant view feature of Telegram [0]. It can be used as a reader view as well.

[0] https://instantview.telegram.org/

Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode

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post #54

I really love the reading the codebases for these, the original Arc90 Readability bookmarklet was really quite...readable when unminified.

I still use that JS script to make a pdf with all links written out fully at the bottom

Also, I usually use Printfriendly.com to turn this page into a small pdf for saving. That is if it's worth saving, of course.

Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode

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I'm a huge fan of reader mode! On a few sites that the adblocker can't work on - or sites that won't work because of the adblocker...reader mode is usually the only way for me to see the content. Example, wall street journal and some other mainstream news sites will obscure the article with a paywall, but reader mode shows it in entirety.

Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode

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post #11

I think I have to share my incredulation; I always use Reader Mode on Safari iOS: lots of sites are quite literally unreadable otherwise.

I exclusively use reader mode on Firefox when reading news articles. So many site are borderline unusable otherwise due to all the ads, popups, cookie policies, and subscription promps.

Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode

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In Firefox this is implemented as about:reader?url=…, and you can use that URL to load reader mode even on pages that aren’t detected as compatible (so that the reader mode toolbar button doesn’t appear).

This used be the URL on Firefox for Android as well, but if I recall correctly (I seldom use reader mode) it got changed in the Fenix world so that it’s a moz-extension:// URL.

Re: The most underused browser feature: reader mode

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post #57

A 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.

Interesting, but doesn't seem to work for me.
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