{"id":18911,"date":"2020-03-08T09:01:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T13:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=18911"},"modified":"2020-03-10T17:41:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T21:41:41","slug":"chromes-reader-mode-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/chromes-reader-mode-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome&#8217;s &#8220;Reader Mode&#8221; is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 28pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Chrome&#8217;s &#8220;Reader Mode&#8221; is Back<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">A while back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/lets-distill-web-pages-with-chrome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">we wrote about distilling webpages<\/span><\/a> with Chrome&#8217;s Reader Mode. A lot of people liked that feature because it removed clutter from pages and made them easier to read. Soon after we wrote that article, Google removed &#8220;Reader mode&#8221; from Chrome&#8217;s available experimental feature&#8217;s list. In the current version of Chrome &#8212; Version 80.0.3987.132 (Official Build) &#8212; Reader Mode (&#8220;Toggle distilled page contents&#8221;) is back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>So let&#8217;s distill web pages again&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">First, make sure you&#8217;re using the current version of Chrome. Click on the Settings icon (3-vertical dots in the top-right corner of Chrome) and click on Help &gt; About Google Chrome. If you&#8217;re not using the current version you&#8217;ll have the option to update Chrome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Next, type chrome:\/\/flags in the Chrome Omnibox (address bar) and press &#8220;Enter&#8221;. In the search box at the top start typing Distill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">When &#8220;Enable Reader Mode&#8221; appears, click on the down arrow next to &#8220;Default&#8221; and choose &#8220;Enabled&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/distill2.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Google Chrome Tips\" width=\"588\" height=\"260\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Once you&#8217;ve done that, go to a website or webpage you want to read &#8211; and while on the page click on the Chrome settings icon (3 vertical dots) and click on &#8220;Toggle distilled page contents&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/distill2a.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Google Chrome Tips\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">And you can take a messy page,\u00a0 full of ads or ads that were blocked &#8212; as in the screenshot below&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/distill2b.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Google Chrome Tips\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">And distill it and make it much easier to read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/distill2c.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Google Chrome Tips\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">But wait &#8211; there&#8217;s more! <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">You can adjust the font size, text color, and background color. Go from black on white to white on black.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Just click the &#8220;A&#8221; near the top of any distilled page. Click on the black circle if you want white text on a black background. Or click the white circle if you want black text on a white background. To change the text size on the page move the slider to the right to make the text bigger or to the left to make it smaller.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/distill2d1.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Google Chrome Tips\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">With simple controls like thsse, no more instructions needed!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/distill2e.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Google Chrome Tips\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Now you can distill almost any web page and make it easier on your eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Oh&#8230; and one more thing&#8230;\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">On some pages, you&#8217;ll have an option to make the background a beige or cream color&#8230; see?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2020\/distill2f.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Google Chrome Tips\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Now go forth and distill your favorite Web pages.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Chrome&#8217;s &#8220;Reader Mode&#8221; is Back A while back we wrote about distilling webpages with Chrome&#8217;s Reader Mode. A lot of people liked that feature because it removed clutter from pages and made them easier to read. Soon after we wrote that article, Google removed &#8220;Reader mode&#8221; from Chrome&#8217;s available experimental feature&#8217;s list. In the current version\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/chromes-reader-mode-is-back\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2574],"tags":[344,3838,3841],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18911"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18918,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18911\/revisions\/18918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}