Closed Bug 1311874 Opened 8 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Add an option to switch into reader mode automatically

Categories

(Toolkit :: Reader Mode, enhancement, P3)

47 Branch
enhancement

Tracking

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RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: scott, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; OpenBSD amd64; rv:47.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/47.0
Build ID: 20160725224408




Expected results:

Reader mode is fantastic. I would like it to be activated automatically on any page I read that supports it, so I don't have to notice and click the reader mode icon. I tend to forget about reader mode and I end up zooming in on the page and such instead of using this great feature.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Component: Untriaged → Reader Mode
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Priority: -- → P3
You can now do this with an add-on. I don't think we'll make this part of Firefox itself. There are too many issues with doing this. Among others:
- any time reader mode thinks it'll work, it'll apply itself, which won't be desired in a non-trivial number of cases
- it'd add to the loading time of websites
- it'd be tricky to keep "correct" back/forward navigation and also allow for people to exit reader mode if reader mode "worked" in that it produced valid output, but didn't work for the user (in that they couldn't use the website with reader mode applied).
- it'd be a significant maintenance concern, especially if we added UI for such an option.

I expect that add-ons will figure out what's a good way to do this. Perhaps a per-site permanent opt-in (e.g. "Always render content on bbc.co.uk in reader mode" or whatever). But I still suspect that the first point above would be a significant problem with doing this...
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Got it. Thanks for closing the loop on the ticket!
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