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daddy-o
Joined: 12 Apr 2004
Posts: 3307
Location: Springfield

3/17/18 10:29 AM

Browser tip

While looking up ways to cook a corned beef brisket (Happy St. Patrick's Day,) I had a few tabs open to infernal web sites. All that advertising started to make the laptop skittish.

These days sites are getting savvy about ad blockers, but this was a time when the blocker was on and none of the sites asked to be exempted.

This is a Firefox (with today's update applied) fix, but I know Chrome, Vivaldi and Edge also have this mode, Safari in the iPhone too.

The Tip:
In Firefox, on the URL line an icon like an open book or a piece of paper with text sometimes appears: "Reader Mode."

It renders a page with greater emphasis on the text, it also tends to ignore CSS. This is the first time I've tried to use it against advertising.


When I clicked reader mode for all six tabs my CPU, memory and disk use all went down. The CPU dropped from about 25% to less than 5%, memory by about a quarter.

Top o' the mornin' to ye.

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Brian Nystrom
Joined: 26 Jan 2004
Posts: 5096
Location: Nashua, NH

3/18/18 7:03 AM

Nice find!

I have to admit that I rarely bother to read about new Firefox features, but this one definitely has potential. It actually eliminates all the annoyance on the Bicycling! website, which is saying something!

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KerryIrons
Joined: 12 Jan 2004
Posts: 3234
Location: Midland, MI

3/18/18 10:19 AM

Tit for tat

And yet on some websites (at least on Facebook) the icon (in Edge) is greyed out. The ever escalating war.

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Matthew Currie
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 800
Location: Vermont

3/18/18 3:02 PM

Yes, I eagerly tried it and found that the icon only seems to appear reliably on sites that don't need it. Ah welladay.

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