Reviews for Tranquility Reader
Tranquility Reader by arunk
Response by arunk
Developer response
posted 7 years agoHi Anonymous,
Thanks for the feedback.
(1) If you click on the Tranquility Reader icon again, it should return you to the original page; just like clicking on the built in reader icon returns you to the original page. This will also work for saved pages; after loading a saved page from the "Offline Content" list, you can click on the icon to go to the original page. Let me know if that does not work for you.
(2) The (+) menu works fine for me even on saved pages. So, I am unable to reproduce this problem; maybe it is specific to some pages. Please leave a note with you OS/Firefox version and I can see if this is an OS specific problem. If you are consistently able to reproduce this on certain web pages, then please send me a sample link.
(3) The built in Reader does better than Tranquility Reader on several pages - and including the handling of images. I had a note in my addon description page starting version 1.2 (sometime in 2015 and until 2017 when I switched to webextensions) that people must try out the built in reader first and switch to this addon only if they find some of the other features I offer so useful that they want to switch. For example:
https://web.archive.org/web/20151110215507/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tranquility-1/
I have seriously considered stopping development and/or removing the addon from the addon store after the built in reader came out - the addon was created when there was no built in reader. I welcome the day when the built in reader replaces all readability addons including Tranquility Reader.
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Update based on the updated comments by Anonymous:
Thanks for the clarifications on saved pages. When you save a page using "Save Page As" from the Firefox File Menu with the "Web Page, complete" option , it saves a html page and a folder (with a suitable name) with all the supporting files (css, javascript, images etc.)
However, when I tested out the "Save Page As" after running Tranquility Reader, this folder contains only tranquility.css; so you get the look and feel of the transformed page but none of the javascript is saved to this folder - as a result the (+) menu and associated functionality will also not work. If you need the addon related javascript and other supporting files to also be saved into this folder and used, that is something that the browser must natively support - I don't believe there is anything I can do as the addon developer - you need to file a bug/enhancement request with Firefox.
You may simply want to "Ctrl+P" and print to a PDF file if you don't care about the format in which you save; that would be just a portable as saving the html file.
Thanks for the feedback.
(1) If you click on the Tranquility Reader icon again, it should return you to the original page; just like clicking on the built in reader icon returns you to the original page. This will also work for saved pages; after loading a saved page from the "Offline Content" list, you can click on the icon to go to the original page. Let me know if that does not work for you.
(2) The (+) menu works fine for me even on saved pages. So, I am unable to reproduce this problem; maybe it is specific to some pages. Please leave a note with you OS/Firefox version and I can see if this is an OS specific problem. If you are consistently able to reproduce this on certain web pages, then please send me a sample link.
(3) The built in Reader does better than Tranquility Reader on several pages - and including the handling of images. I had a note in my addon description page starting version 1.2 (sometime in 2015 and until 2017 when I switched to webextensions) that people must try out the built in reader first and switch to this addon only if they find some of the other features I offer so useful that they want to switch. For example:
https://web.archive.org/web/20151110215507/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tranquility-1/
I have seriously considered stopping development and/or removing the addon from the addon store after the built in reader came out - the addon was created when there was no built in reader. I welcome the day when the built in reader replaces all readability addons including Tranquility Reader.
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Update based on the updated comments by Anonymous:
Thanks for the clarifications on saved pages. When you save a page using "Save Page As" from the Firefox File Menu with the "Web Page, complete" option , it saves a html page and a folder (with a suitable name) with all the supporting files (css, javascript, images etc.)
However, when I tested out the "Save Page As" after running Tranquility Reader, this folder contains only tranquility.css; so you get the look and feel of the transformed page but none of the javascript is saved to this folder - as a result the (+) menu and associated functionality will also not work. If you need the addon related javascript and other supporting files to also be saved into this folder and used, that is something that the browser must natively support - I don't believe there is anything I can do as the addon developer - you need to file a bug/enhancement request with Firefox.
You may simply want to "Ctrl+P" and print to a PDF file if you don't care about the format in which you save; that would be just a portable as saving the html file.