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Reader view button not showing on sites compatible with this feature

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I was using the reader view to read a couple of online text books from OReilly.com. The URL on one of the books was long, and the reader view button wasn't showing. When I tried to toggle it with ⌥⌘R, that didn't work either. I couldn't find anything in the Firefox menu to activate the reader view. Any similar views?

I was using the reader view to read a couple of online text books from OReilly.com. The URL on one of the books was long, and the reader view button wasn't showing. When I tried to toggle it with ⌥⌘R, that didn't work either. I couldn't find anything in the Firefox menu to activate the reader view. Any similar views?

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Pages need to meet a specific layout and paragraphs need to have a specific minimum length to make reader view work, so it isn't guaranteed that it will always work and that all content is visible when you enter reader view mode.
u can also try to prefix with "about:reader?url=" (this may not work if there is a hash (#) in the URL; you can replace the hash with "%23").

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@ killa-zilla :

Please ignore   quickhelp's   post   -   it's a scam !

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Wow. Why me, man...

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killa_zilla said

Wow. Why me, man...

Don't worry,   not just you :   the scammer posts in many threads, and
uses a different name/account every time.
At least I think it's the same scammer.

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Hello,

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Chosen Solution

Pages need to meet a specific layout and paragraphs need to have a specific minimum length to make reader view work, so it isn't guaranteed that it will always work and that all content is visible when you enter reader view mode.
u can also try to prefix with "about:reader?url=" (this may not work if there is a hash (#) in the URL; you can replace the hash with "%23").