Reviews for Bionic Reader
Bionic Reader by Rain Jr.
19 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Shubham Jha, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Kadircan Ersahin, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Com|C, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cr8zy_Ivan, 10 months agoThis is a really sweet Add-On. I've been looking for a text formatter to use with Outlook Web, and this is the only one I found that works well.
In an ideal world, I would have liked the Dark mode to follow the Text Formatting. The Text Formatting can be applied to specific Webpages, but Dark mode must be applied to all Webpages.
It would also be a great enhancement to have customizable Hotkeys. Unfortunately, in my circumstance, two Hotkeys that I use a lot come in conflict with Bionic Reader: "Ctrl + Alt + =" and "Ctrl + Alt + -", which I use in Google Sheets and Excel to "insert rows/columns" and "delete rows/columns".
I will say however, this is a Kicka* Add-On. Kudos! Very well done.Developer response
posted 10 months agoHi, thank you for your comment!
I know that I need to add customizable hotkeys as you suggested. I will try to add this feature when I have time to work on it.
Sorry for the confliction with these hotkeys :p! - Rated 5 out of 5by Pfhoenix, a year agoHaving some trouble with the extension inverting the bold, resulting in the end of the words being emphasized. Not sure if this is a known behavior with a workaround/inbuilt fix, but aside from that seems a good extension.
Follow on edit: Figured it out. If you adjust weights appropriately and the strength, it will de-emphasize emphasized content in pages, while also not effectively emphasizing other content due to the limits it has been provided.
Surprise, the 'issue' was once again the user, not the product.Developer response
posted a year agoHi,
I know about the issue you mentioned. However, it is really hard to fix it because many fonts do not use standard strength for their characters. Furthermore, detecting a text that is already emphasized (with custom strength/bold font) may be costly (most of the time, we need to use "getComputedStyle()" in Javascript, which is slow and not efficient).
I'm glad you found the workaround for the issue! I put a lot of effort to build that Options GUI, but not so many people care about it :D! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17102720, a year agoMy bad for assuming this extension was malicious - it works great.
Developer response
posted a year agoHi,
You can easily view the source code of ANY extension on Firefox. They are just simple ZIP files with XPI extension. First, rename the extension from ".xpi" to ".zip" and then extract.
You can read more from here (or just google something like "check firefox extension source code"):
https://superuser.com/questions/771825/how-to-examine-source-code-of-firefox-extension-before-installing-it)
Anything in Open Source doesn't mean that it is safe. Because the one in the repository may NOT be the SAME with the one you INSTALL. This is a simple TRAP that many people will get in. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17862970, a year agoGreat extension, thanks for sharing it, mind sharing repo so we can watch for new PRs? Thank you
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posted a year agoHi,
I'm not a professional developer and currently have no public repo at all :)! - Rated 5 out of 5by Lethalmikey, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by DylanDerEchte, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by fatbluecherry, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by dav, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17649765, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by mrtimdog, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15085701, 2 years agoGreat extention. Compared to the oringinal BR app is that it keeps the webpage in tact. It would be gread if this extention can also be made for Chrome.
- Rated 5 out of 5by bunbun, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12679987, 2 years agoAlso recommended by the author of this article: https://www.makeuseof.com/what-is-bionic-reading-why-should-you-use-it/
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13680132, 2 years agoWorks more consistently than the other two I tried... Also nice customization
- Rated 5 out of 5by Richard, 2 years agoWorks excellent. Many options for customisation. Currently best Bionic Reading App for Firefox.