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Re:Clan Wars Blamed for Ancient Collapse of the Male Chromosome by vanderZwan on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @09:05AM (#17302636)
Now if only we could directly open articles in text mode, and save ourselves the pain of loading (or at least rendering) all the crap first. Like a right-click menu option next to the "Open in new tab/window/private tab" options
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Re:Clan Wars Blamed for Ancient Collapse of the Male Chromosome by nerdponx on Thursday June 14, 2018 @07:46AM (#17310906)
As far as I can tell, the Firefox reader mode algorithm needs the entire page loaded in order to figure out what part of the page is actual content. It's necessary because nowadays you can't tell from the HTML alone.
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Re:Clan Wars Blamed for Ancient Collapse of the Male Chromosome by vanderZwan on Thursday June 14, 2018 @11:21AM (#17312352)
I guess that makes sense, but even then: loading is not the same as rendering to screen. I don't know which of the two is the bigger drain on resources in mobile, but it can still help.
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