Reviews for Reading Ruler
Reading Ruler by Oren Trutner
22 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by ausdemff, 18 days agoAwesome. Very nifty useful tool. Thank you for beeing a good human. :-)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18182066, 4 months agomy favourite extension. It's simple, efficient, perfect.
- Rated 5 out of 5by red, 10 months agoThis is a great addon and makes reading long chunks of text so much easier! I wish there was an option to pick any colour instead of the default 5.
- Rated 5 out of 5by chan, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by michelle, 2 years agoThis is the best virtual reading ruler I've found. Thank you. It helps me with Visual Snow Syndrome.
I wish I could use it to highlight whole paragraphs though, not just single lines. Haven't been able to find an app that does that. That would be amazing. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16034524, 2 years agoIt took me a while to realize that the ruler icon appeared in the search bar and not the toolbar. Other than that, it does everything it says on the tin. I wish I had discovered this tool much earlier!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Grégory O., 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by mrtimdog, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17443634, 2 years agoWorks super well on anything but google docs, I really appreciate the new hotkey for on/off.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Paul, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nejimaki Boy, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14921817, 2 years agoI can see this extension being pretty useful, but I think it would be better if the ruler was turned off by default. I only need it for certain things and having it on every page gets annoying pretty quickly. Edit: The added toggle feature makes it much more useful. Definitely a useful extension to have.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoI hear you. Turning the ruler on or off for all sites appears to be the top requested feature. Version 1.8 adds a global on/off switch at the top of the options menu. You can also use the Alt+R hotkey to toggle the ruler for all sites. - Rated 5 out of 5by mf2, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13888374, 3 years agoAmazingly useful add-on. Big thanks to the programmer! I read a lot of books online and have tried the Ruler (line highlighter) at Project Gutenberg, Fadedpage, and Scribd.com. Works perfectly. It certainly helps keep me focused and my eyes more relaxed. I might add that all the options, including turning the Ruler ON or OFF, are available in about two mouse clicks. (Look for the Ruler icon just to the right of the address/URL bar. Couldn't be more convenient.)
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cezar, 3 years agoI have ADHD and this extension is awesome for reading texts without losing focus. Previously I would manually highlight every line as I was reading it. Congrats
- Rated 5 out of 5by Abhi, 3 years agoThis is the first time I'm rating any extension out of the dozens I use. It does exactly what it says. One thing which could be improved is a shortcut to enable/disable the extension. Additionally a global disable and then enable for each ones where required is an absolute essential.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoThank you for the kind words. Turning the ruler on or off for all sites appears to be the top requested feature. Version 1.8 adds a global on/off switch at the top of the options menu. You can also use the Alt+R hotkey to toggle the ruler for all sites. - Rated 4 out of 5by Anna, 3 years agoSo pleased to find this add-on as I've been looking for something just like this to help me with reading content in a second language that uses a different script. It's easy to get overwhelmed with all the text on the page, so having something that helps me focus just on the part I'm reading is really useful.
The one possible improvement would be the ability to set everything else on the page (everything not highlighted) to fade a bit, at the same time, to the background colour of the page. Initially I was looking for something that would give me almost a keyhole view on just the text under the mouse, so that's where that idea came from.
Also, it would be nice to be able to choose for the add-on to be disabled by default on new domains so that using it is "opt-in" rather than "opt-out". Right now I'm having to check the box to disable it on most of the pages I visit frequently (but on which I don't read long-form content). I'll get there in the end, but right now it feels like work and could discourage new users.
But overall am really pleased to have found this and very grateful to the developer.Developer response
posted 2 years agoI'm glad you find this add-on of some use.
The recent versions added a couple of features that touch on the proposed improvements:
- Version 1.6 added a "negative" mode that darkens the rest of the page to highlight the selected line. This isn't exactly what you asked for, but I hope it's a step in that direction. A future version might add that fade-to-background suggestion you listed.
- Version 1.8 adds a global on/off switch at the top of the options menu. You can also use the Alt+R hotkey to toggle the ruler for all sites. This isn't exactly the opt-in you describe, but hopefully this gives you more direct control on the default state. A future version might experiment with the opt-in proposal.
Thanks! - Rated 5 out of 5by cooljpeg, 3 years agoIt's criminal how less than 100 people use this add-on >:+( It's such a godsend, and knows exactly what it needs to be--no more, no less! The ONLY suggestions I have are to add options for "locking" a highlight in place and maybe a shortcut to toggle the extension on 'n off... But that's if I'm being nitpicky, this add-on is a gem, thanks a whole whole bunch! :+}
Developer response
posted 2 years agoThank you for the kind words!
I hear you about locking the highlight in place. I'll experiment with that in some future version. As for a shortcut to toggle the extension on or off, take a look at the latest version. It adds both an on/off switch on the add-on's options menu and a hotkey to do the same (Alt+R).
Hope this helps! - Rated 4 out of 5by Manfredi Giordano, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13313774, 4 years agoThank you, this was exactly what I was looking for!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16147312, 4 years agoWorks great. Pretty much what I was looking for. Would have, however, loved a universal toggle to quickly switch the Ruler Mode on/off across websites.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoI hear you. Turning the ruler on or off for all sites appears to be the top requested feature. Version 1.8 adds a global on/off switch at the top of the options menu. You can also use the Alt+R hotkey to toggle the ruler for all sites.