Reviews for Tranquility Reader
Tranquility Reader by arunk
219 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16326330, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by TheConservativeCrocodile, 4 years agoGood reader. Unlike Firefox's own reader, it displays links correctly and it switches to reading mode faster.
edit: This add-on is very well maintained. I had a minor difficulty going back and forth. This was quickly resolved by a few tips from the developer below this review.Developer response
posted 4 years agoThank you for the review.
You can toggle between the reader view and the original webpage by either:
* Clicking on the browser action icon again and it should reload the original page, or
* Clicking on the "Original Link" control (link/chain icon) that appears on the top right of the reader view of the extension. Sometimes, this control is auto-hidden; just clicking anywhere on the page will reveal additional controls for about 10 seconds (before being hidden again).
If you have problems with this functionality, please update your comment with a specific page where you don't see this working correctly. - Rated 5 out of 5by shubhankar, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Toaster Ovens, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by TYTY, 5 years agoMy request was correctly improved in version 3.0.22. I think this is a really great add-on.
Therefore, I changed the review rating to 5 stars.
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When clicking a navigation link that transitions between pages, it is better to move to the top of the opened page.
That's because normal browsing (= Tranquility off) does that.
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When viewing a multi-page website, the previous version showed links to other pages, but the current version (3.0.21) no longer shows them. It is very inconvenient when moving to the next page.
[ Example ]
https://xtech.nikkei.com/atcl/nxt/column/18/01414/090800005/
I'm sorry I can only show an example of a Japanese site.
There are 3 pages of articles on this website. Just below the article, there is a link with the page number to go to another page.
But when I turn on Tranquility, I don't see these links.Developer response
posted 5 years agoUpdate on 2020-09-24:
Links to related pages are restored in version 3.0.22 (released today).
The extension does try to scroll to the top of the opened page (even as of version 3.0.21); but the code did not seem to work for some cases; a change has been made to try and address this problem. If this problem persists, please provide a specific page with instructions on reproducing the problem.
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Update based on the example link provided:
Thanks for the example page. I identified that the regression happened between 3.0.18 (where this functionality worked for your page) and in 3.0.19 where it stopped working. I have added your example page to my regression tests suite.
The change that caused this regression does not have to do with the code that keeps track of such navigation related links; rather these links are enclosed within a certain type of tag that I started removing in 3.0.19 because for most pages, it was typically used as a way of navigating around the website as well as for social networking related links and had nothing to do with the main page content.
The fix for this regression will be available in the next release. It may take a couple of weeks for the next release so that I can combine this fix (moving just a couple of lines of code) with other fixes -- otherwise I will be burdening the reviewers with too many releases. Thanks for your patience.
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Thanks for the review/feedback. 3.0.21 should not have any code that explicitly tries to remove the navigation links. Please update your comment with an example page or open a ticket on the github support page (https://github.com/ushnisha/tranquility-reader-webextensions/issues) and I can take a look.
The extension tries to save navigation links that match one of the following 18 patterns (comma separated pattern list):
NEXT,NEXT>,PREV,<PREV,PREVIOUS,<PREVIOUS,
NEXTPAGE,NEXTPAGE>,PREVIOUSPAGE,<PREVIOUSPAGE,
FIRST,<<FIRST,LAST,LAST>>,<,<<,>,>>
If the page has clickable navigation links that exactly match one of the above, the extension should be able to extract such links and preserve them in a clearly demarcated navigation section (with border); there is no guarantee that navigation links with other patterns will be retained by the extension -- although such links may have been retained in the past. - Rated 5 out of 5by Daniel, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cyb, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by MC Cendana, 5 years agoThankfully this extension makes poorly designed pages (but with interesting content) much easier to read.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alexandre, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by majid, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Olja, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16126141, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sty, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bro. Joe, 5 years agoMarvelous tool for stipping the junk blocking clear reading of website screens.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ugur, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by 云元, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15571228, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by TonyImagine, 5 years agoTranquility greatly helps to reduce visual and mental clutter and helps to store or share articles without including unneeded elements and links. I find it very useful indeed.
Recently the developer kindly added the URL at the top of the page, which eliminates another tedious step in sharing or saving articles with a source reference. To the developer: a sincere THANK YOU!
A respectful suggestion: Many Tranquility-processed web pages omit the original TITLE. Could the title be included in all cases, please? If it's not included I have to manually insert it while saving or sending the Tranquility-processed article, which wastes a lot of time.Developer response
posted 5 years agoThank you for the review. I add back any removed H1 tags (typically identical to the title of the page) in version 3.0.19 (pending review) and that seems to work for most pages. Once that version is released/approved, you should see the changes. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14991419, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by CGC, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15984381, 5 years agoWorks, but why would I use it over Firefox' inbuilt Reader Mode?
Developer response
posted 5 years agoThanks for the review.
If you are happy with Reader Mode, this extension may not add much value. If you are looking for functionality that is not in reader mode, you may want to see if this extension addresses some of those needs.
For more details, please see my reply to an earlier review at: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tranquility-1/reviews/1517344/ - Rated 5 out of 5by SCollins, 5 years agoI love this extension. It does exactly what's needed for creating a distraction free, aesthetic reading environment. It also doesn't try to do too much. Bravo!