Reviews for stutter
stutter by James Tomasino
10 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Roizen, 2 months agoAmazing! It's just that I can't seem to get the skip backwards and forward to function both in Firefox (nor Chrome). Maybe there's something I'm doing wrong, or dev can please look in to it. Cheers :D
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posted a month agoSometimes the default key bindings aren't a great fit for your computer. Try going to the options panel and scroll to the bottom. Click on the current binding and you can press your own key to bind your own scroll buttons. That may work better for you. - Rated 4 out of 5by Herr Einzige, 2 years agoAdding another great review for this. Perhaps I missed it but it would be nice to have a pause button to allow me to stop and start where I left off. Otherwise great, helped turn reading an article into a better experience.
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posted 2 years agoHi there! You can click on the stutter bar to pause or use the keyboard shortcut to pause/resume. The keyboard shortcuts are customizable in the add-on settings page. Cheers. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15304512, 2 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16915145, 3 years agoGreat plugin. I will rate 5 stars if you add a keybinding to quickly lookup the dictionary. Dictionary(dot)com is a good one and easy to implement.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Esh44, 3 years agoWorks really well. However, I cannot seem to use the extension when I open a pdf file in firefox.
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posted 3 years agoSadly, the browser add-on API does not let me target PDFs. It's a browser limitation and nothing I can fix in the add-on. - Rated 4 out of 5by Gen, 3 years agopretty good, there are improvements that can be made but works for what it is
- Rated 4 out of 5by Comrade Hakim', 4 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15325947, 5 years agoBeautiful rendering, I wonder if the text handling can be improved... Doesn't seem to work in reader view. Also will sometimes miss newline characters (?) such as in this document: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/lesson-1-creating-database-objects?view=sql-server-2017
It does fairly well overall but when reading the RH sidebar under "Is this page helpful" each item in the list below gets hyphenated to the next: "Prerequesites-C" for example. I know that's an unimportant part of the article but I'm sure that problem may occur elsewhere.
Also, being able to seek within the article... maybe by clicking along the length of the bar or with some manual controls - would be lovely.
I love the blur effect when the reader is paused. Being able to easily change the font and size would be very appealing.
Overall great app - I have been waiting for a good replacement for Spritz for YEARS thank you so much James!Developer response
posted 5 years agoVersion 1.7.0 has introduced some keyboard shortcuts: Alt+Left/Right will skip you forward and backward as you're reading. Alt+Up/Down will increase or decrease speed. Enter wil pause/play, and Escape will close Stutter. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15313439, 6 years agoGreat tool. I've used a few speed reading addons in the past and this one is the one I've stuck to. Only issue for me is the inability to use it on pdfs. I read a ton of papers and can't use this tool with them.
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posted 6 years agoThanks for the review. I'm not sure if I can process content in a PDF with a web extension, but I'll look into it. That would be a great feature addition. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13260286, 6 years agoThis extension seems to read what the "Speed Reading Mode" extension doesn't read. I really like the presentation. I haven't figured out exactly why the third letter or so is red, but it does seem to help keep my attention. Improvements could be an option to read only what is selected on the page. Another nice thing would be to show how much time it will take to get through the words in the page with a progress bar. Remaining time would also be nice.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoThanks for the review! You can read your selections on a page by highlighting the text then right-clicking and choosing "Stutter Selection". The background of the reading bar displays progress but not time, you're right. I'll look into that and see if it's something I can add!