1457334 - No Reader View of Twitter

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Reader Mode, defect)

Description

[MarjaE]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0
Build ID: 20180323154952

Steps to reproduce:

I tried to read a Twitter thread.


Actual results:

I couldn't read it. I couldn't scroll the whole page, to scroll without pain. I was only able to scroll the middle, with sheering pain on each side due to the fixed background.

I tried to switch to Reader View. I couldn't. I then blocked fixed elements, using an add-on, but it blanked the whole page.


Expected results:

... There ought to be some way to force reader view on Twitter, or fix scrolling on Twitter, or defeat fixed elements and fix scrolling everywhere.

Comment 1

[Gingerbread Man]

(In reply to MarjaE from comment #0)
> I tried to read a Twitter thread.
> I tried to switch to Reader View. I couldn't.

Bug 1164426 says this is intentional.

> I then blocked fixed elements, using an add-on, but it blanked the whole page.

You may be able to use userContent.css [1] to set elements to position:static [2] which should unsticky them and let them scroll normally. If you don't know CSS, either StackOverflow [3] or Mozilla Support [4] should be able to help you.

[1] https://luke-baker.github.io/#usage
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/CSS/position
[3] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/css
[4] https://support.mozilla.org/questions/new

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Yes, unfortunately this isn't something we intend to fix in reader mode.