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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User Reviews

Recent rating average: 4.20

All time rating average: 4.24

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11% (9)

Date	Author	Comment
2026-06-14	Id*****

2025-07-13	Tx*****

2025-04-06	远离*****

2025-02-09	退出*****

2025-01-25	ry*****

2024-08-10	Fi*****	Works great... Thanks to the developer
Works great... Thanks to the developer
2024-04-22	Fi*****	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.
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	Ro*****

2023-09-08	tr*****	Dosen't work
Dosen't work
2023-09-04	ma*****	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
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