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by mintplant 3962 days ago

    BLOATWARE
    
    Disable 'Reader Mode':
Why? I use this every day to pull the text out of frustratingly-formatted sites.
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It's the only UI change to firefox that I've come to appreciate.

I can't think of a single UI change since the introduction of Australis that hasn't caused me pain, frustration and forced me to spend considerable time and effort to look for workarounds or fixes. Since almost all of my UI interaction is muscle memory - changing, removing things and adding completely unwanted elements has been an unpleasant and grating experience for me and I come to dread every new feature introduced to firefox.

Reader is the only positive one for me. My eyesight isn't the best and the modern design trend for low contrast and small text makes many sites unreadable. Reader fixes that for me ina simple way, it's straightforward and doesn't have any unnecessary features.

Yeah, I like Reader Mode. It strips off all the fluff to make pages readable again.
One of the features I regularly use. Makes it easy to read and instantly removes most of the irritating .js stuffs that many sites add.
My guess is because of the Pocket integration.
Reader mode is a separate feature from the Pocket button.