Absolutely true. Firefox has had a reader mode for a while now,
available via the View menu as well as via the ctrl+alt+R hotkey.
Microsoft Edge in Windows 10 also has a reader view button. Chrome does
have one but implementing is it a bit wonky as you need to go into
Chrome's properties and add a command line argument. I'm in the process
of looking for third-party extensions in the Chrome store which might
make the feature easier to enable.
As far as Chrome vs Safari in speed it's been over a year since I've
used Safari on a Mac and so I'm not qualified to comment. I do agree
with you that any browser participating in speed wars only benefits
consumers. I will say that Chrome's speed, at least on Windows, is
lightning fast although there are some accessibility quirks with it
which could drive some users crazy. I plan to submit feedback on the
Chromium Accessibility group regarding some issues I've found and I can
only hope that Google is responsive enough to their users to investigate
and correct issues.
David Goldfield, Assistive Technology Specialist Feel free to visit my
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On 6/12/2017 8:40 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
> I haven't played with them too much yet, but I believe there's an
> extension for Chrome that gives you a reader mode. I also think
> Firefox now has a reader mode. I've taken a quick look at Edge in
> Windows 10 and Seamonkey on Ubuntu, and one of those two also had a
> reader mode, so I think we are starting to see this feature show up in
> our browsers.
>
>
> As far as fastest browser, I'd suggest looking at the numbers. I'm
> sure there are some sites and types of services where Safari is king
> and others where Chrome or Edge wins out. These browsers also tend to
> leap frog each other in areas like performance. If Apple is kicking
> off another round of browser wars, that's probably a good thing for us
> customers.
>
>
> On 12/06/17 16:01, Harry Brown wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This comment from the Apple WWDC last week, from an Apple presenter
>> on stage, "The first update is for Safari, with Greg Federighi
>> claiming that, "Safari tops all desktop browsers in speed": He even
>> went as far as to say, "it's the world's fastest desktop browser. A
>> Modern Javascript test claims the new Safari is 80 percent faster
>> than Chrome."
>>
>> Anyone ever used Chrome and Safari? If you have, which is faster? Or,
>> are they both same?
>>
>> What I absolutely love about Safari, (and I wish all the other
>> browsers would do this), is it's read feature, that gets rid of all
>> the other stuffon a web page that an article, or news story, is on,
>> and just gives you the text of the article, or news story!
>>
>> Harry
>>
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