Reviews of Reader

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List of user reviews and ratings for Reader

Total ratings

3.57

Rating count: 133

Recent rating average: 3.80

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Review summary

The Reader Firefox add-on offers a distraction-free reading experience appreciated by many desktop users. However, multiple users report significant limitations, especially on Android, such as no customization options and partial content display. Accessing styling options on desktop is often confusing or blocked by other extensions. Additionally, some critical elements like headlines and links sometimes fail to appear or function properly. While it aids focused reading for many, these issues hamper usability across platforms.

Pros

Provides a clear and distraction-free reader view for web content.
Useful for controlling and customizing content visibility during reading.
Has been reliable and well-liked by some users over time.
Works well on desktop platforms in displaying readable content.

Cons

Limited or no customization options in Android version, including font and background colors.
Reader view sometimes only displays visible portion of the page, requiring repeated activation to read entire content.
Lack of easily accessible styling and customization options on desktop; users struggle to find or access them.
In-document links often do not work within the reader view, hindering navigation.
Some users report important content like headlines, dates, or bylines missing in reader mode, making it less useful for news stories.

User Reviews 136

Вполне неплохо работает

I've used many Reader View extensions with Chrome and recently came back to Mozilla. Though I'm not sure if it's because I'm using a fork vs Firefox, this is like the worst reader viewer I have found for performance.

I couldn't find the options where can I customize the readmode pane. It would be better if there is a functionality to set custom colors and fonts. edit: I figured out how to customize the pane, it is invisible at the bottom of read pane hover if any latecomer look after.

Clips visible portion of webpage.

Useless reading panel in android, all we want is the auto scroll function

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