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Reader-mode oddiries ?

Started by"R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid>
First post2026-09-09 08:41 +0200
Last post2026-09-09 12:34 +0200
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  Reader-mode oddiries ? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-09-09 08:41 +0200
    Re: Reader-mode oddiries ? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-09-09 11:22 +0100
      Re: Reader-mode oddiries ? "R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid> - 2026-09-09 12:34 +0200

#18170 — Reader-mode oddiries ?

From"R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid>
Date2026-09-09 08:41 +0200
SubjectReader-mode oddiries ?
Message-ID<117qv3o$s75o$1@dont-email.me>
Hello all,

I was using reader-mode in FF 52, and had the need to "view page source". 
To my surprise what I got was something that didn't even contain the text I 
was reading.

Also, when I dragged the URL to my desktop and tried to again open it this 
morning by dragging the link onto my open browser it refused to do so.

(Looking at the stored link itself it started with "about:reader?url=")


what I want to know is is this normal behaviour (does it still work the same 
way in more recent versions of FF), and if so what is the purpose of it ?

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

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#18171

FromAndy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
Date2026-09-09 11:22 +0100
Message-ID<ngcq8bFj9mtU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#18170
R.Wieser wrote:

> I was using reader-mode in FF 52
> (Looking at the stored link itself it started with"about:reader?url=")

In FF 155.x reader mode URLs look normal, both in the URL bar and in 
dragged bookmarks ...

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#18172

From"R.Wieser" <address@is.invalid>
Date2026-09-09 12:34 +0200
Message-ID<117rcoe$12269$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#18171
Andy,

>> I was using reader-mode in FF 52
>> (Looking at the stored link itself it started with"about:reader?url=")
>
> In FF 155.x reader mode URLs look normal, both in the URL bar and
> in dragged bookmarks ...

That was what surprised me : in the URL bar it showed normal, just the 
drag-and-dropping it resulted in a quite different one - which the browser 
doesn't recognise back (just checked : about:about doesn't list 
about:reader.  Whut?).

I'm going to assume that both I asked about are bugs.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

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