Read Web the Tidy Way with New Firefox Add-on

Posted by dkszone on June 2, 2009

A new Firefox Addon called TidyRead gives pdf like display of any website by extracting the main content as text and images and displaying it as a zoomed image overlayed on top of the website. This gives readers more readability to the main content on the website rather than getting distracted to the ads and other flashy items.

The extracted article is overlayed with the original page and it is easy to switch back and forth to TidyRead layer or the original content layer.In the TidyRead mode, you can customize the styles, font size and margin site by site and those customization info are saved on the cookies.

You can also customize TidyRead with allow and disallow list.It can work in Smart Mode in which it automatically extracts and displays an article.Supports Right to Left (RTL) languages and displays well.It has an in-page toolbar to allow instant customization of style (background, foreground and link colors), font family, font size, text justification and width of reading overlay.