Are you bothered by advertisements and other elements that appear on the web pages you visit? Use Reading World in Chrome, Edge, and/or Firefox to view distraction-free text.
Nowadays, web pages are mostly cluttered with advertisements and various visual content, which take up a good part of the screen display area, when it is not outright videos and other pop-ups which open and launch automatically. So many “parasitic” elements which impair reading, and which are really detrimental to articles that are a bit long. Of course, it is always possible to install an ad blocker like the excellent uBlock Origin or the popular AdBlock and AdPlock Plus, which, as their name suggests, purely and simply block the display of these disruptive elements. But as useful and practical as they are, these blockers require the installation of an extension in the browser and, above all, they prevent sites like CommentÀMarche from collecting revenue to continue offering free content.
Fortunately, there is another, simpler – and free – solution! – which has other advantages without these disadvantages. Thus, the three main Internet browsers on the market, Chrome, Edge and Firefox, each have a native function, directly integrated and therefore not requiring the installation of an extension, which allows you to rid pages of their unnecessary content so as not to keep only the essentials, that is to say the text, images and videos which are an integral part of the body of the page.
Entitled Reading Mode, this function is accessible in one or two clicks depending on the browser, and transforms a cluttered page into a continuous and airy column of text, which allows you to find comfort and readability. In addition, Reading mode allows you to customize certain graphic aspects, such as the style and font, the size and spacing of the text, or the colors of the page. Clearly, with Reading Mode, we find the comfort of pure reading of the real content of Web pages.
How to use Reading mode on Chrome?
► Launch Chrome and go to a web page whose content you want to read, then right-click anywhere on the page and finally click Open in Reading mode.
► A side pane then opens to the right of the Chrome window, with only the text and graphic elements of the body of the web page. You can resize the reading pane by clicking on the separator bar with the main pane, but also change the font, its size, the spacing between lines and letters or the color theme using the buttons on the reading pane. toolbar at the top of the reading pane. Note that at the moment, Chrome’s Reading mode is only available on the computer version of the browser, and not on the mobile version (Android and iOS), while this function is available on both versions of the Firefox browser (see the third section of this article).
How to use Reading mode in Edge?
► Launch Edge and go to a web page whose content you want to read, then click the button Open the immersive reader just to the right of the address bar or press the key F9 of your keyboard.
► The web page then completely changes its appearance, and becomes a single column of text, images and videos, without the additional content of the original page. You can change different display settings, such as text size and column width, font or color theme, by clicking the button Text preferences at the top right of the Edge window.
How to use Reading mode on Firefox?
► Launch Firefox and go to a web page whose content you want to read, then click the button Enable/Disable reader mode just to the right of the address bar or press the key F9 of your keyboard.
► The web page then completely changes its appearance, and becomes a single column of text, images and videos, without the additional content of the original page. You can change various display settings, such as character style (serif or sans serif), text size, letter and line spacing, or color theme, by clicking the button Change font in the small vertical toolbar at the top left of the page. Note that Firefox Reading mode is also available on the mobile version (Android and iOS) of the browser, which is particularly practical.
Reading mode is therefore a very simple function, natively integrated into the three major Internet browsers on the market: Chrome, Edge and Firefox, and which offers very appreciable reading comfort, which is particularly useful for concentrating on the essentials. by reducing distractions and distressing or intrusive content that increasingly populate web pages.