Activate Reader View

This add-on adds a button to the toolbar. Clicking on it activates the Reader View even if the icon in the address bar is not present.

Total ratings

4.21 (Rating count: 75)

Review summary

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Pros
  • Works great for accessing reader view on most sites
  • Invaluable for printing and saving content
  • Bypasses publication paywalls effectively
  • Offers a better experience when the built-in reader view fails
Cons
  • Doesn't work on all sites, such as CNN
  • Some users report it doesn't function on Android
  • Setting 'reader.parse-on-load.force-enabled' often does not work as expected
Most mentioned
  • The add-on effectively forces reader view when Firefox native features fail
  • It provides a clean reading experience and allows for saving content as PDF or EPUB
  • Request for a shortcut/hotkey feature to activate the reader view more easily
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Recent rating average: 4.20
All time rating average: 4.21
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Date Author Rating Comment
2025-01-25 ryk
2024-08-10 Firefox user 13202285 Works great... Thanks to the developer
2024-04-22 Firefox user 17827523 I have found this functionality invaluable. I currently try to save content to .pdf files rather than bookmarking because of the ephemeral nature of web content. I normally change the view to the "reader" view to enable printing the content of the page while eliminating most of the extraneous content (like links to unrelated articles) that would otherwise appear.
2023-12-02 Rob
2023-09-08 tryoxiss Dosen't work
2023-09-04 marc On recent versions of Firefox the alternative method of using the configuration editor to set “reader.parse-on-load.force-enabled” no longer works. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1696698
2023-05-10 Jorge
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