[mweatherill]

Are you aware of the keyboard shortcuts? "f" toggles fullscreen mode "2" toggles list mode "?" shows all shortcuts

[pplante]

Yeah, I am aware of them. The problem is I want to just click the item and have it open in my browser, rather than show me a summary or embedded view of it. That is not possible with Reader.

[phaylon]

I usually just click the grey icon to the right, which opens the link the item points to. The expanded view is still useful though, since for example HN points to the posted link and not the comments page.

[mweatherill]

The arrow item to the right of the story title will open it in a new tab. Is that what you are after or am I missing something?