Show HN: Increase your readability and productivity with this simple extension

Re:Show HN: Increase your readability and productivity with ... by oefrha on Monday December 16, 2019 @09:55AM (#21803393)

Chrome has had a builtin DOM distiller for a while (not sure if still guarded by an experimental flag, on my phone now so can’t check), but it’s primitive and worst of all reloads the page on exit.

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Re:Show HN: Increase your readability and productivity with ... by mtm7 on Monday December 16, 2019 @10:08AM (#21803499)

I can confirm that it's still loaded by an experimental flag. As a word of warning to anyone who wants to try it: the design isn't suited for reading at length (120 character line width, set in Courier). It's really not that great.

Firefox and Safari have decent reading modes, though.

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Re:Show HN: Increase your readability and productivity with ... by oefrha on Monday December 16, 2019 @11:28AM (#21804204)

> 120 character line width, set in Courier

Um, it’s not? Chrome 78 on macOS here, text is rendered in 14px Roboto, content box width is 75% (on 2560px viewport). I find it fairly pleasant to read, my only problem is page reloading on exit as I already mentioned.

Edit: The mode is gone after updating to 79, seems to be gated by a command line switch now. What the hell.

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Re:Show HN: Increase your readability and productivity with ... by mtm7 on Monday December 16, 2019 @06:03PM (#21808493)

Ah, I stand corrected. The content box width is indeed based on the viewport size. My text, however, is still rendered in 14px Courier on macOS (and even given a .monospace class), so I'm not sure what's going on there.

I just updated to Chrome 79 and now the distilled mode is gone. For anyone who's looking on how to re-enable it, here's a thread: https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/22576539

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