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Sunday, October 08, 2006

Read Easily

I am by now enthralled by the Firefox browser for many reasons, not the least of which are the extensions.   Read Easily, has quietly become indispensable.  Even with 20-20 vision I have a terrible time reading some web sites  (Michael Barone's triggered this post).   When I run into that situation now, a click on the ''Red A'' instantly removes all styling, leaving a simple, clean presentation.  Another click returns the style.  Wouldn't it be nice to have one of these things for politicians?  Click-Click.

4 comments:

  1. Rodge,
    Is the style really that much of an impediment? I find if I just notch the text size up once or, in more extreme circumstances, twice, it's entirely readable.
    Than again, I have met a couple of pages where increasing the text size resulted in overflow in weird ways. ... You may indeed be right on this one.

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  2. >>>

    Me don't have no red 'A'....."

    >>>

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  3. Yes, the style can be an impediment, for me anyway. I don't like certain fonts, and I cannot read multicolored blogs, like black backround and red type, etc. But, it's a choice.

    To get the "Red A" icon (or any other for that matter) right click on the tool bar, select "customize," and drag it up there.

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  4. Dr. H: You need to install the extension in your Firefox browser. If you're using the Redmond Malware Enhancer, you'll get a "Red A--", but it won't be something you want to click on with your computer mouse.

    Rodge: You're far more patient than I. If a site is unreadable because of crappy design, I just leave, never to return. I figure if they're that ignorant about presentation, they are also ignorant about content and have nothing to say that is worth my time to read.

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