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Readability based Reader View
strips away clutter like buttons, background images, and changes the page's text size, contrast and layout for better readability. Note: This extension uses the standalone version of Mozilla's Readability library.
What is Readability based Reader View?
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Summary
Note: This extension uses the standalone version of Mozilla's Readability library. The user interface is very similar to the original reader view. However you can apply your own styling to the view. Also it supports text to speech functionality.
Reader View extension brings Mozilla's open-source Readability implantation to Chromium. Using this extension you can strip clutters from webpages and read them on "Reader View" mode. The extension allows you to toggle between normal view and reader view by pressing the page-action button.
Preview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JCKc1CCOR0
Note that reader view mode works best for web pages that have a lot of content. There are some tools in the left side panel that can help you personalize your Reader View. You can change color, background-color, font-size, font-family and width of the reader view.
Features: -> Remove distraction -> Read in fullscreen mode -> Remove advertisements
User reviews
User reviews summary
Pros
- Offers visual customization options
- Improves on Firefox's default reader view
- Can save articles for offline reading or convert to pretty documents
- Provides a manual option to select text source, useful on some forums
- Accessible for users with vision problems
Cons
- Text-to-speech functionality is broken or buggy
- Automatic-switching feature does not work reliably
- Some design mode features don't work or lack explanations
- New updates have caused issues like wrong framing of saved HTML and disabled icons
- Not optimized for Firefox Nightly on Android
Most mentioned
- Customizability and various visual options
- Issues with text-to-speech function
- Problems with auto-switching and interface changes after updates
- Enhances the reading experience on Firefox
- Useful for converting and saving articles
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Safety
Risk impact
Readability based Reader View is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Readability based Reader View has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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