this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2023
77 points (98.7% liked)

Firefox

17424 readers
972 users here now

A place to discuss the news and latest developments on the open-source browser Firefox

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
77
Is there a way to automatically turn on reader view mode for all websites that support it? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
9 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I end up manually clicking to turn it on anyway every time. Would love to automate it.

top 9 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I use this add-on. It doesn’t automatically turn on for every website but you get to choose which domains it works for and which domains it doesn’t.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Technically, you can enable it anywhere by using Redirector to prepend about:reader?url= to the URL, with a sort of white/blacklisting system using Regex. It may or may not be able to show a useful content summary, of course. There is a pretty accurate algorithm built into Firefox that evaluates if it does, and shows or hides the address bar button accordingly. Maybe an add-on can leech of the result of this algorithm?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

i need this on mobile

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does it not work on mobile?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

are there extensions on mobile FF?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I'd love that too, wrote about it some time ago: https://jeena.net/notes/1373

Will check out this addon .