Reviews for stutter
stutter by James Tomasino
Response by James Tomasino
Developer response
posted 6 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.
40 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by NikWillOrStuff, 3 months agoI was impressed!! Sometimes you have to highlight the text you want to read before turning it on, depends on the website, but the keys are customizable and everything has been working for me without any fuss.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16113765, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18319897, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13528371, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tech Cube, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Herr Einzige, a year 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.
Developer response
posted a year 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, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15235806, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17379514, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17351756, 2 years agoI love this! I've been looking for something like this for a while.
Good amount of configuration and nice ability to control color with themes and move the bar around.
I'd love the option of being able to control font and font size. - Rated 5 out of 5by TachyLubdub, 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.
Developer response
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 5 out of 5by Johnathan James, 3 years agoIt worked exactly as I imagined it should, right out of the box.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Andreas, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Comrade Hakim', 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Phuc Quang Tran, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ghost, 4 years agoI have not used it for long yet, but it is just what I was looking for !
Also despite the homepage link being a github page, I do not see the mention of the add-on being open source; in my opinion this would be a good marketing point to add ! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13517976, 5 years agoGreat tool - any chance of letting us tweak how many words appear in-line at a time? Or how many lines appear?
I'd like to run it at 600wpm with 5-10 words per line, 2 lines + increase from there to improve reading speed.
Of course, even without capability it's awesome - Rated 5 out of 5by Edison Orellana, 5 years agoSpreed was the best fast reader on Chrome. Spreed doesn't exist on Firefox as of now, so this is the best alternative. It would be nice if we could get some more readable font options, like something with serifs.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13507221, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Hosein, 5 years agoThe best speed-reading extension so far, with regular updates on github.