Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Google Adds Reading Mode to Desktop Chrome

I've been happily using Reading Mode on Google Chrome on my Pixel 4a since it was introduced a few months ago.  Now it's available for Chrome on desktop PCs, but if you can't wait for the rollout to hit your PC, you can easily enable it now by following the instructions in this article.

  1. Type chrome://flags into the browser's address bar.
  2. Type reading mode into the search box at the top of the screen that comes up.
  3. See the line labeled "Reading Mode"? Click the box next to it and change its setting from "Default" to "Enabled."
  4. Click the blue Relaunch button at the bottom of the screen.

To enable Reading Mode on a website, click the side panel icon in the upper right of the screen and select Reading Mode from the dropdown menu.

Your page will appear, neatly formatted, in the side panel at the right of the screen. You can adjust the panel width and font size. 

For more details, see the Android Intelligencer article.

It's a useful feature, though I wish that they'd chosen to display the page full screen in a separate window. 

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