Reviews of Activate Reader View

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List of user reviews and ratings for Activate Reader View

Total ratings

4.24 (Rating count: 76)

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Review summary

Users appreciate 'Activate Reader View' for reliably forcing Firefox's reader mode on pages where the native option fails, enhancing readability and facilitating saving or printing clean content. The add-on is praised for its simplicity and effectiveness across various websites. Common issues include lack of Android support, absence of shortcut keys, and occasional redundancy due to Firefox's evolving internal config options. Overall, it provides valuable functionality for users needing consistent access to reader mode and improved content capture.

Pros

Effectively enables reader mode on sites where Firefox's built-in feature does not work, like CNN.
Simplifies accessing a clean, printable, and savable view of web content, useful for saving articles as PDFs or ebooks.
Easy to use with one click to activate reader mode.
Works reliably despite changes in Firefox's internal settings for reader mode.
Open source and appreciated by users for its focused functionality.

Cons

Does not work on the Android version of Firefox.
Similar functionality can sometimes be enabled by changing about:config settings, though not reliably everywhere.
Lacks a shortcut/hotkey option to activate reader mode quickly.
Firefox's internal reader mode and config options sometimes fail or are inconsistent across sites, necessitating this add-on.

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