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Tranquility Reader
Tranquility Reader improves the readability of web articles by removing unnecessary elements like ads, images, social sharing widgets, and other distracting fluff.
What is Tranquility Reader?
Tranquility Reader is a Firefox add-on designed to enhance the readability of web articles. It works by stripping away unnecessary and distracting elements from web pages such as ads, images, and sharing widgets. The add-on also offers several handy features like compatibility with NoScript, offline content saving, customization of reading area, note-making for offline content, and more. It supports Firefox for AndroidOS from version 3.0.5, and respects user privacy with all data processing and storage localized to your browser.
Stats
By:
arunk
Rating:
4.60
(260)
Creation date:
2012-01-25
Weekly download count:
547
Firefox on Android:
Yes
Risk impact:
Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version:
2
Permissions:
- <all_urls>
- activeTab
- storage
- alarms
- contextMenus
Size:
94.77K
URLs:
Website
Stats date:
Chrome-Stats Rank
#
411
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Summary
Tranquility Reader
Tranquility Reader improves the readability of web articles by removing unnecessary elements like ads, images, social share widgets, and more.
Functionality
- Click the navigation-bar icon to transform the page on Desktop
- Select the "Tranquility!" option from the toolbar menu on Android
- Compatible with NoScript
- Save content offline for reading later (the tranquility view is saved locally on your computer)
- Ability to export/import the offline content.
- Ability to customize default font, font-size, font color, background color, and width of the reading area (you can use this website to pick a suitable color code—thanks to user JA for feedback on this!)
- Create and manage your own preset configuration of the various options/preferences
- Add/edit notes/annotations to portions of the offline content; collate annotations with context for a summary of all your notes and annotations.
- Unobtrusive menu at the bottom of the screen (displayed by clicking the (+) symbol on the bottom right corner of the screen) provides additional features
- Additional links are available through a "More Links" button in the menu at the bottom of the screen
- Left-clicking a link in Tranquility View will open the link in Tranquility View in the current tab
- Firefox for AndroidOS is supported from version 3.0.5 — please check the release notes for this version for limitations on AndroidOS.
- Transform only a portion of the web page by highlighting the text and then running Tranquility (right-click context menu option - "Tranquilize Selection")
License & Copyright: Tranquility Reader is provided under GPLv3 license. Copyright (C) 2012-2022 Arun Kunchithapatham
User reviews
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Pros
- Functional and useful
- Offers the customization it claims to
- Readability
- Works well
Cons
- Does not recognize right to left written languages
- Auto-dark mode not available
- Issues with specific websites (e.g. NYtimes.com)
Most mentioned
- Auto-dark mode
- Readability
- Customization
- Right to left written languages
- NYtimes.com
Recent reviews
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Seän "frostbyte" Shepherd, 2024-04-17
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Seän "frostbyte" Shepherd, 2024-04-17
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Firefox user 18361246, 2024-04-07
Safety
Risk impact
Tranquility Reader may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this add-on. Review carefully before installing.
Risk likelihood
Tranquility Reader has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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