1449680 - Reader mode does not work in googleblog.com

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Reader Mode, defect)

Description

[susso0]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0
Build ID: 20180323154952

Steps to reproduce:

1. Enter a article of googleblog.com (https://analytics.googleblog.com/2018/03/google-surveys-goes-global-pmm.html)


Actual results:

1. The reader mode option does not appears


Expected results:

1. The reader mode option should appear

Comment 1

[Stefan [:StefanG_QA]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0 (20180402111808)

Thank your for reporting this issue. 

I have tested this on the mentioned page above and I can confirm the Reader mode could not be enabled on googleblog.com

Pressing F9 does not start the reader mode.

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

This page uses a single <div> container with a <span> that gets display: block via CSS. There's no performant way to detect that as paragraph'd text. Unless/until we make a change to determine whether a page is readable off-the-main-thread or something and then use the 'real' readability algorithm, we won't be fixing this.