Remember Evernote Clearly, the Google Chrome extension that removed elements from web pages to improve the content readability? The developers have now released a Firefox port of the extension that is available at the official Firefox add-on repository over at the Mozilla website.
The Firefox version has the same functionality that the Chrome extension offers. An icon is added to the Firefox navigational toolbar upon installation and restart. Users who do not use the toolbar can right-click on it and select customize to move the icon to another toolbar.
A click on the Clearly icon turns standard web pages into pages that have been optimized for readability. Only text, images and videos that belong to the content on the web page are displayed, the remaining elements, advertisements or menus, are removed. Clearly in addition attempts to display multi-paged articles on the same page.
Evernote Clearly furthermore changes text and layout styles. The add-on uses a larger base font size, line height and width, a light gray background, black text and blue link colors for better readability.
Styles can be edited in the add-on options, just like it was possible in Google Chrome. Here it is then possible to change all values that have been mentioned above, plus the body, header and monospace font, as well as advanced CSS commands. This includes adding custom CSS styles and how links and large graphics should be handled by the Firefox add-on.
A click on the icon displays the optimized version in the same browser tab. Icons on the right can be used to change the default page style and font size, to print the optimized page or to clip it to Evernote (which requires an Evernote account).
A keyboard shortcut is available to open pages with the help of Clearly directly. This can be useful for users who do not want to use the icon or prefer keyboard navigation. The default shortcut is Ctrl-Alt-Right Arrow, it can be changed in the options.
Evernote Clearly is a useful extension for Firefox users who want to improve a page’s readability or print a printer friendly version of a page.
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I use Readability for Firefox. There are versions for Chrome, Safari and iOS too.
There is a 3rd party port of Readability for Opera too. Look for cleanPages.
But for some reason it isn’t active on Ghacks pages. Maybe they’re legible enough.
I tried Evernote Clearly
in my FF version 3.6.25 (under XP-SP3).
When I click on the Lamp icon,
absolutely nothing happens or opens…
Is there a _minimum version of Firefox_
for Clearly to work correctly?
UPDATE to my prev. post (above).
Ok – I got it…
Spec in Mozilla addons site,
says:
” Works with Firefox 4.0 – 10.* “
Did you run FF in Sandboxie? Just wondering because of that yellow boundary.
Yes I did, well spotted.