2 add-ons for Firefox to improve the reading experience

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2 add-ons for Firefox to improve the reading experience

Postby fraterlinux » Feb 15th, '14, 16:59

2 add-ons for Firefox to improve the reading experience

As everyone knows, Opera have abandoned the Presto and Opera Next is not yet available for Linux. Not all pages that are perfect in obsolete Opera, so I'll pass the tip for 2 Firefox add-ons which together supply a feature of Opera greatly facilitates the reading of websites and tutorials very beautiful pages, but horrible to read. Remember the Opera feature called: Page Style: Author Mode / User Mode?

So here are the additions:

https://addons.mozilla.org/pt-BR/firefo ... quility-1/

Tranquility

Tranquility is a FireFox extension that improves the readability of web articles.

Tranquility removes unnecessary elements in a webpage, and provides a simple and tranquil reading experience. Similar functionality is available through Readability or iReader. Tranquility attempts to solve the same problem using a different approach.

To use tranquility you can:

Click on the navigation-bar icon and the current web-page will be made readable OR
Use Ctrl+Alt+T as a keyboard shortcut OR
Right click on a link and choose "Tranquility!" from the context menu. A new tab will open the link in the Tranquility mode.
Heavy users of Tranquility can enable the Pause/Break button as a single key shortcut
Macintosh users are requested to use the Customizable Shortcuts addon to create their own customized keyboard shortcut

The navigation-bar button or the keyboard shortcut can be used to toggle back to the original web page. A drop down menu attached to the navigation-bar button provides easy access to the preferences window.

https://addons.mozilla.org/pt-BR/firefo ... sy-readin/

BLANK YOUR MONITOR
BYM provide a simple mechanism to change Firefox color combination in order to invert the usage of white and black colors.
A typical web page has black (the foregroud color) text over a white background.
When "BYM is ON", you will get a white text over a black background.
If you have a CRT monitor, you will save a little amount of energy.
You can change color combination and keyboard shortcut by the BYM Options menu associated to the toolbar button. The BYM Options menu is alsoavailable under the Addons page. BYM Options is active, when BYM is OFF

BYM toolbar icon is available in View->Toolbar->Customize menu (available since version 1.9.6)

EASY READING
ER provides a simple mechanism to isolate and highlight the text for easy reading.
Select the text, right-click, select the "Easy Read" entry in the context menu or press Ctrl-Alt-Z.
You will get a new tab filled with the selected text (white text over a black background).
ER uses the color combination defined for BYM.
You can use the Tools->BYM Options menu to toogle the hover effect (underline rows while your mouse move) in the Easy Read tab.

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Re: 2 add-ons for Firefox to improve the reading experience

Postby doktor5000 » Feb 15th, '14, 19:48

Moved to Tips&Tricks subforum. Ideas and suggestion is meant for suggestions or ideas about the distribution itself.
Thanks for sharing :)
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Re: 2 add-ons for Firefox to improve the reading experience

Postby fraterlinux » Feb 15th, '14, 21:02

thanks for the correction
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