Reviews for Tranquility Reader
Tranquility Reader by arunk
280 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by varaprasad, 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 4 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 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15984280, 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 4 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!
- Rated 4 out of 5by Sofia, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15772628, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ZazooLa, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15921533, 5 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Argoten2, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by BSHE, 5 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Владимир Трубачёв, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15734208, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mucki, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Dawson, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by nebel3@gmx.at, 5 years agoTemesta ist das Mittel meiner Wahl. Ich sage, AMAZON-Weihnachtsmann schicke mir bitte Temesta rund um die Uhr an mein Smartphone.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15864217, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by M. Möhling, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by wieland, 5 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15843032, 5 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by xerus, 5 years agoWorks, but why would I use it over Firefox' inbuilt Reader Mode?
Developer response
posted 5 years agoThank you for the feedback.
TLDR; For users that are happy with the built in Reader Mode, there is no need to use this extension.
This extension was first created in 2012 when there was no built in Reader Mode in Firefox.
Once Reader Mode was introduced in Firefox, for a while the listing description of this extension encouraged readers to first try the builtin Reader Mode and use this extension only if/when the user is not satisfied with Reader Mode.
Reader Mode works on on web pages that have an "article" tag (to the best of my knowledge) -- it is not enabled on pages that don't have an article tag. This extension works on pages even without an article tag.
There are always some pages where this extension does a better job that Reader Mode; and the converse also holds true.
Here are some of the additional features that are available that some users like:
(1) Finer ability to customize fonts, font size, reading width, background color etc.
(2) Ability to save pages locally for offline reading (and to add annotations/notes to offline articles); export/import such pages (as opposed to using an online service like Pocket)
(3) "Continuous browsing mode" -- when in the transformed view, clicking on a link will automatically take you to the transformed version of the page referred to in the link
Refer to the extension listing for more features.