Reading mode has become a popular and widely used feature over time. It can be found in mobile phone operating systems as well as in many applications that rely on this feature to offer a more comfortable viewing experience. Chrome has also decided to adopt this mode and will soon be offering it to all its users, but if you can't wait to try it, today we'll explain how to get it now. Let's get started.
How to activate the Reading Mode in Google Chrome
Google has confirmed that a reading mode will be available in its Chrome browser, similar to the one found in Firefox or even the "old" Microsoft Edge . However, this feature is currently under development and may still take some time to officially reach users, so everyone who uses this platform will have to wait a while longer until it's officially released... or not.
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It turns out that you can already try it out in Chrome Canary . If you're not familiar with it, Canary is the experimental version of the browser we all know, the place where Google tests all its new features for the first time to find bugs and check that everything works (or not) in order to refine the function and then release it in its stable version. The open-source browser is available for anyone who wants to download and try it (it's especially geared towards developers), so as long as you understand that it's an unstable platform and its implementations aren't final, you can access the website and install it without any problems.
Thanks to Canary, you can get an idea of how this mode works . Basically, it removes most of the "extra" elements unrelated to the content from the pages you visit, such as ads or the comments section. When you access an article on a website, only the basic information will be displayed : the title, text, and any images that illustrate the content. That's it.
Ready to take a look? Then follow these steps:
- In case you don't have Chrome Canary, the first thing is to install it -if you already have it, go to point 3. Go to the Google download website, click on the yellow “Download Chrome Canary” button and download it to your computer.
- Proceed to install the browser as if it were any other.
- Open Chrome Canary and click on the navigation bar.
- Type (or copy/paste) the following: chrome://flags/#enable-reader-mode
- Press enter to access the experimental control panel. He Reader Mode It will appear marked in yellow.
- In the dropdown on the right, select "Enabled«. When doing so, a message will appear in the inner area of the window indicating that the changes will be applied the next time you restart Google Chrome. Press the blue “Relaunch Now” button. The browser will restart.
- Reading Mode is already activated. To test it, go to any website and when you are there, click on the three buttons in the upper right corner (next to your profile icon) and look in the drop-down menu «convert page«. Ready. The web should be simplified and displayed in "basic" reading mode.
Reading Mode, at least in this initial experimental phase, is activated individually on each page via a menu. We don't know if, once implemented, Google will improve this feature, perhaps by making it even easier for users to "convert" pages, or if they will make other changes to what we're currently seeing. We'll have to wait and see.