Reviews for Tranquility Reader
Tranquility Reader by arunk
Response by arunk
Developer response
posted 4 years agoThank you for the feedback.
TLDR; For users that are happy with the built in Reader Mode, there is no need to use this extension.
This extension was first created in 2012 when there was no built in Reader Mode in Firefox.
Once Reader Mode was introduced in Firefox, for a while the listing description of this extension encouraged readers to first try the builtin Reader Mode and use this extension only if/when the user is not satisfied with Reader Mode.
Reader Mode works on on web pages that have an "article" tag (to the best of my knowledge) -- it is not enabled on pages that don't have an article tag. This extension works on pages even without an article tag.
There are always some pages where this extension does a better job that Reader Mode; and the converse also holds true.
Here are some of the additional features that are available that some users like:
(1) Finer ability to customize fonts, font size, reading width, background color etc.
(2) Ability to save pages locally for offline reading (and to add annotations/notes to offline articles); export/import such pages (as opposed to using an online service like Pocket)
(3) "Continuous browsing mode" -- when in the transformed view, clicking on a link will automatically take you to the transformed version of the page referred to in the link
Refer to the extension listing for more features.
TLDR; For users that are happy with the built in Reader Mode, there is no need to use this extension.
This extension was first created in 2012 when there was no built in Reader Mode in Firefox.
Once Reader Mode was introduced in Firefox, for a while the listing description of this extension encouraged readers to first try the builtin Reader Mode and use this extension only if/when the user is not satisfied with Reader Mode.
Reader Mode works on on web pages that have an "article" tag (to the best of my knowledge) -- it is not enabled on pages that don't have an article tag. This extension works on pages even without an article tag.
There are always some pages where this extension does a better job that Reader Mode; and the converse also holds true.
Here are some of the additional features that are available that some users like:
(1) Finer ability to customize fonts, font size, reading width, background color etc.
(2) Ability to save pages locally for offline reading (and to add annotations/notes to offline articles); export/import such pages (as opposed to using an online service like Pocket)
(3) "Continuous browsing mode" -- when in the transformed view, clicking on a link will automatically take you to the transformed version of the page referred to in the link
Refer to the extension listing for more features.
265 reviews
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- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15218163, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by allen6, 21 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Seän "frostbyte" Shepherd, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18361246, 2 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 17661040, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Yuri M., 2 months ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by IONLYbrows, 2 months agoDear dev, can you implement auto-dark mode as an option? Called "follow system theme" or something.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Johnny Hash, 3 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Kuromaku, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18294034, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by S.B.P, 4 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by sostpm@protonmail.com, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17246548, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ironworka, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Elías Sanabria, 7 months ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 18085709, 8 months agoTranquility reader does not recognize right to left written languages and thus shows text adjusted to the left instead of adjusted to the right.
Developer response
posted 8 months agoThank you for your feedback. You are correct that the extension is not language aware. However, there is an option/preference that can address your problem.
Please refer to the following page in the Wiki:
https://github.com/ushnisha/tranquility-reader-webextensions/wiki/005-Customize-Extension
You can set the "Text Align" option (under the "Text Display Preferences" section) to the value "right".
That should hopefully address your text alignment issue for right-to-left written languages. - Rated 5 out of 5by Vinson, 8 months agoThe best readability addon. It would be better to provide a shortcut back to the original page, like Esc or one click.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18005896, 9 months ago