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On firefox you can just switch to reader mode and reload the page.

by Rexxar 7y ago

_Microft 7y ago
If Firefox does not offer reader mode by itself, prepend about:reader?url= to the url to force loading the page in reader mode by the way.
- exhilaration 7y ago
  Thanks for the tip. I'm curious, do you know how some sites prevent the reader mode button from appearing?
  - _Microft 7y ago
    From what I would guess, it might be rather that these pages do not conform to what Firefox expects from a page to be suitable to be shown in reader mode. Large pieces of text with a few pictures in them or something like that. If you check back in a few hours, I might have posted more information on this.
    - _Microft 7y ago
      This might be the right place to look into: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/default/toolkit/components/reader https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/default/toolkit/... Especially: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/a6a5a4f31ea26906e584e162b8d9485e6cacca32/toolkit/components/reader/Readability-readerable.js#l51 https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/a6a5a4f31ea26906... Edit: this is a potshot.
- CalRobert 7y ago
  Thank you thank you!!!!! This is hugely helpful.
- joosters 7y ago
  Is there any way to turn this into a bookmarklet, so that clicking on it would prefix the current URL with that?
  - kohtatsu 7y ago
    javascript:window.location="about:reader?url="+window.location (sorry I'm on my phone just guessing; this kind of stuff might not be available because security or something nowadays)
    - joosters 7y ago
      It's got to be something like that, unfortunately I just don't know the exact syntax. I've got some other javascript bookmarklets in firefox, but looking now at their links, they are a mess of %-encoding, and I'm not sure if that's important or not (perhaps they got mangled through an old import) FWIW, here's a bookmark to get rid of static bars (the kind of thing annoying websites have stuck at the top of the page and won't go away when you scroll): javascript:(function()%7B(function%20()%20%7Bvar%20i%2C%20elements%20%3D%20document.querySelectorAll('body%20*')%3Bfor%20(i%20%3D%200%3B%20i%20%3C%20elements.length%3B%20i%2B%2B)%20%7Bif%20(getComputedStyle(elements%5Bi%5D).position%20%3D%3D%3D%20'fixed')%20%7Belements%5Bi%5D.parentNode.removeChild(elements%5Bi%5D)%3B%7D%7D%7D)()%7D)() I don't remember it being quite so ugly when I first added it, surely bookmarks don't need to %-encode spaces and curly brackets?

On firefox you can just switch to reader mode and reload the page.

by Rexxar 7y ago

On firefox you can just switch to reader mode and reload the page.

If Firefox does not offer reader mode by itself, prepend about:reader?url= to the url to force loading the page in reader mode by the way.

exhilaration 7y ago
Thanks for the tip. I'm curious, do you know how some sites prevent the reader mode button from appearing?
- _Microft 7y ago
  From what I would guess, it might be rather that these pages do not conform to what Firefox expects from a page to be suitable to be shown in reader mode. Large pieces of text with a few pictures in them or something like that. If you check back in a few hours, I might have posted more information on this.
  - _Microft 7y ago
    This might be the right place to look into: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/default/toolkit/components/reader https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/default/toolkit/... Especially: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/a6a5a4f31ea26906e584e162b8d9485e6cacca32/toolkit/components/reader/Readability-readerable.js#l51 https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/a6a5a4f31ea26906... Edit: this is a potshot.
CalRobert 7y ago
Thank you thank you!!!!! This is hugely helpful.
joosters 7y ago
Is there any way to turn this into a bookmarklet, so that clicking on it would prefix the current URL with that?
- kohtatsu 7y ago
  javascript:window.location="about:reader?url="+window.location (sorry I'm on my phone just guessing; this kind of stuff might not be available because security or something nowadays)
  - joosters 7y ago
    It's got to be something like that, unfortunately I just don't know the exact syntax. I've got some other javascript bookmarklets in firefox, but looking now at their links, they are a mess of %-encoding, and I'm not sure if that's important or not (perhaps they got mangled through an old import) FWIW, here's a bookmark to get rid of static bars (the kind of thing annoying websites have stuck at the top of the page and won't go away when you scroll): javascript:(function()%7B(function%20()%20%7Bvar%20i%2C%20elements%20%3D%20document.querySelectorAll('body%20*')%3Bfor%20(i%20%3D%200%3B%20i%20%3C%20elements.length%3B%20i%2B%2B)%20%7Bif%20(getComputedStyle(elements%5Bi%5D).position%20%3D%3D%3D%20'fixed')%20%7Belements%5Bi%5D.parentNode.removeChild(elements%5Bi%5D)%3B%7D%7D%7D)()%7D)() I don't remember it being quite so ugly when I first added it, surely bookmarks don't need to %-encode spaces and curly brackets?