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Reviews for Bionic Reader

Bionic Reader by Rain Jr.

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  • by Zeicon, 2 months ago
    A lot of options, which is good, but maybe the defaults can be tweaked - imo.

    Also needs a "Exclude this page" button. Pages break every now and then and you have manually open the menu, switch to advanced and copy the url in.
  • by Firefox user 18667913, 4 months ago
  • by EmSixTeen, 5 months ago
    Good functionality options when it comes to the actual typography settings it applies, but currently breaks a huge amount of sites.

    This would benefit *massively* from two things:
    1) the ability to provide class names it will apply to, rather than entire domains.
    2) the ability to use a picker to select elements it would apply to, or right click and use the context menu to apply to that element (and that choice being saved).
  • by Fudge, a year ago
    I'm only giving this a 3 stars because I think I have some problems with the add-on. I can't find the save option that shows up under Controls on the help tab. None of the changes I make are saved and I don't know how to do it. I don't know if it's just something I'm doing wrong.
    I'd also like to add that it doesn't work on notion.so, which I use a lot. Is this because of other code on the website?
    However it definitely works with the default settings on other sites and I appreciate the dev.

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    Hi,
    I have installed the addons on Windows and Android (phone) to test and it's working normally. Not sure about Firefox on Linux because I tested it long time ago. They may change the code to render addons on linux (?).

    Also, please check the Options GUI again and look for scrollbars. Your OS may shrink/expand the GUI when you increase scaling on your display. Firefox still keep the same maximum size for addons GUI when you scale your display (800x600).

    If you still cannot see the GUI like in the screenshot, the Firefox version on your system may render it incorrectly.

    For Notion.so. This addons will not work on any webpage that using dynamic content. Because right after the addons modify the text (bionify), the website will insert the original text right after the modified one and break the page.
  • by g1lby, 2 years ago
    While being very helpful if you struggle to focus on text, this addon breaks a lot of pages, including those of almost every AWS product like route53, ec2 and much more.
    Took me a long time to find the cause.
    Also, I'm using an ANSI 60% keyboard, so I cannot use the shortcuts since I don't have a numpad on there and the shortcuts can't be edited.

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    Hi,
    Some websites are very strictly with their content and will break if we modify them. For example:
    - Text nodes being used as placeholders for other elements.
    - Add other text node if the original text node changed.
    - Running background script to check the text content and will break/cause problem if we change even a single character.

    So, I do not recommend everyone to turn on this extension for all websites. In earlier version, I turn off these options on default. However, many people don't know how to enable them and report this extension as "not working".

    You can try to combine domains, blacklist and shortcuts for better experience. I have updated the description for shortcuts tab. You can use other characters on your keyboard (not limited to numpads), like: ), (, *, =, _
  • by SlyFox1988, 2 years ago
    I like it overall, unfortunately It crashes my office 365 webmailer on certain emails. Once I turn the addon off, it works fine.

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    Hi,
    I have no access to Office 365 webmail, so that I cannot check for the issue. Maybe, the website does not happy to see the text changed :)! Like Protonmail, If we change the text in some special element, it will stop loading.

    I have updated the extension to add keyboard shortcuts for some options. You can try these:
    - CTRL+ALT+NUM0: Toggle the OFF button. (Use this to quickly turn the extension ON/OFF).
    - CTRL+ALT+NUM9: Toggle the ALL button (apply the extension for all websites).
    - CTRL+ALT+NUM8: Toggle the DARK button.
    - CTRL+ALT+MINUS: Do not allow the extension to run on current website (add to blacklist).
    - CTRL+ALT+PLUS: Allow the extension to run on current website (remove from blacklist).
  • by Junker, 2 years ago