Reviews for stutter
stutter by James Tomasino
Review by Firefox user 13221093
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 13221093, 5 years agoOh my god - I'd given up finding an RSVP reader for Firefox after Reasy bit the dust. Thank you SO MUCH for investing your time in this - it's great! Only two things - 1 issue, and 1 enhancement request.
Issue: Stutter doesn't keep MacOS Mojave from going to sleep, so if I'm reading a longer article or an academic journal, I have to remember to move the mouse around now and then - this may not be something you can even address, but thought I'd mention it.
Enhancement Request: Stutter doesn't seem to work with Reader View - the overlay just never appears. Again, not sure if there are limitations in extensions these days that would preclude layering over Reader View or not.
Note: I'm also running Nightly v69.01, and I'm being a bad reviewer by not testing these things in the standard release of Firefox >_> Seriously though <3 Thank you so much for this!
Issue: Stutter doesn't keep MacOS Mojave from going to sleep, so if I'm reading a longer article or an academic journal, I have to remember to move the mouse around now and then - this may not be something you can even address, but thought I'd mention it.
Enhancement Request: Stutter doesn't seem to work with Reader View - the overlay just never appears. Again, not sure if there are limitations in extensions these days that would preclude layering over Reader View or not.
Note: I'm also running Nightly v69.01, and I'm being a bad reviewer by not testing these things in the standard release of Firefox >_> Seriously though <3 Thank you so much for this!
Developer response
posted 5 years agoHey, thanks for the review. I'm not sure firefox gives me a way to "stay awake" but I'll look into it. That would be cool during playback.
As far as the Reader View goes, Firefox greatly limits what an add-on is able to do. That's probably a good thing, honestly. The great news is, if you click on the stutter icon on a regular page, I push the webpage through Firefox's readability library before streaming it to you. That's the same library that powers the Reader View, so the experience should be similar.
Cheers - tomasino
EDIT: It looks like Google has a spec started for a "WakeLock" feature to keep screens awake. If approved, that would be a perfect solution for Stutter. There are some hacks to get it to work now, but most have drawbacks and only work in certain environments. I'm going to keep an eye on the WakeLock feature and implement it if it makes it through draft.
As far as the Reader View goes, Firefox greatly limits what an add-on is able to do. That's probably a good thing, honestly. The great news is, if you click on the stutter icon on a regular page, I push the webpage through Firefox's readability library before streaming it to you. That's the same library that powers the Reader View, so the experience should be similar.
Cheers - tomasino
EDIT: It looks like Google has a spec started for a "WakeLock" feature to keep screens awake. If approved, that would be a perfect solution for Stutter. There are some hacks to get it to work now, but most have drawbacks and only work in certain environments. I'm going to keep an eye on the WakeLock feature and implement it if it makes it through draft.