Reviews for Bionic Reader – Add-ons for Firefox Android (en-US)

by JKT, 3 years ago

To others having issues getting it to work: You have to go to the puzzle piece in your upper right corner to reveal the Extensions pulldown. Then go to Bionic and choose "Pin to toolbar". Once you do this, you'll have the controls that the author is asking us to use. Hope this helps others.

As for how well it works, it is incompatible with posting on social media. On both Reddit and Twitter as you type your post, it moves the insertion point back to the beginning of the sentence. This is a deal-breaker for me.

Developer response

posted 3 years ago

- You have to click on "ALL" or "THIS SITE" button (on top of the GUI) to enable bionic reading style. I disabled them on default because I don't like the intrusive way of using a new extension.
- Use "DYNAMIC" button to enable dynamic loading of bionic style. This will reduce memory usage by A LOT on web pages with a huge amount of text. However, you may see the text changing as you scroll down or up too fast.

For more information, please read the "Help" tab.

Update:
- I have released a new version with bug fix for websites that use "contenteditable" attribute in text editor.
- Thanks for reporting this bug. I have never used this extension outside of reading books and articals... my bad :D!

by dav, 3 years ago

by Firefox user 14374660, 3 years ago

Works well and has a lot of good options but was quite buggy for me(caused reddit to continually refresh) so will probaly come back later to give it another go.

Developer response

posted 3 years ago

Hi,

I have no issue when browsing Reddit.com with this extension. Thus, I do not know exactly what cause the refreshing in your case.

You can try the following to make sure that there is no conflict with other extensions.
1. Close all tabs.
2. Clear browser's cache completely. (Ctrl+Shift+Delete)
3. Disable other extensions and enable this extension only.
4. Restart your browser and open Reddit again.

by Firefox user 17649765, 3 years ago

by mrtimdog, 3 years ago

by Firefox user 15085701, 3 years ago

Great extention. Compared to the oringinal BR app is that it keeps the webpage in tact. It would be gread if this extention can also be made for Chrome.

by bunbun, 3 years ago

by Firefox user 12679987, 3 years ago

Also recommended by the author of this article: https://www.makeuseof.com/what-is-bionic-reading-why-should-you-use-it/

by Firefox user 13680132, 3 years ago

Works more consistently than the other two I tried... Also nice customization

by Richard, 3 years ago

Works excellent. Many options for customisation. Currently best Bionic Reading App for Firefox.