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by bxparks 2134 days ago
Yup, and Reader mode on Firefox Mobile is disabled. Couldn't read more than a few sentences.

Just out of curiosity, what controls whether or not reader mode is enabled?

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I believe it is a heuristic that looks at text length, element type and class name.
Yup! It looks for paragraphs that are at least 140 characters long. I wrote about it a bit more here: https://videoinu.com/blog/firefox-reader-view-heuristics