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Status: Untriaged
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OS: Linux , Windows , Chrome , Mac
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Type: Feature



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Offer ReaderMode on all platforms

Reported by jabron...@gmail.com, Mar 24 2018 
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 11_2_6 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/604.5.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.0 Mobile/15D100 Safari/604.1

Steps to reproduce the problem:
It looks like Chrome only offers ReaderMode on Android. Competing browsers (e.g. Firefox, Safari, Edge) offer this feature on all their supported platforms. Any interest in following suit?

What is the expected behavior?

What went wrong?
(ReaderMode is unavailable outside Android)

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: N/A  Channel: stable
OS Version: N/A
Flash Version: 

A quick search through the tracker didn’t yield an issue for this – apologies if I missed it.

Comment 1 by woxxom@gmail.com, Mar 24 2018 

FWIW, you can enable it via command line flag: chrome --enable-dom-distiller
See https://www.pcworld.com/article/2889207/how-to-enable-chromes-clutter-free-experimental-reading-mode.html

It's buggy though, and apparently not currently developed, which explains why it's not present even in chrome://flags
Arguably, the better choice currently is using an extension, there are several popular ones.

Comment 2 by jabron...@gmail.com, Mar 24 2018 

Yes I’m aware but thank you anyway. This issue is meant to track adding
native support for reader mode to all platforms with first-class UX,
achieving parity for this feature with the other browsers.

Comment 3 by ajha@chromium.org, Mar 26 2018

Labels: Needs-Triage-M65

Comment 4 by pnangunoori@chromium.org, May 9 2018

Labels: -Type-Bug Type-Feature
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
Assuming this issue as the Feature Request and updating the status to 'Untriaged' so that the issue you will be addressed.

Thanks!

Comment 5 by meh...@chromium.org, Dec 28 

 Issue 918156  has been merged into this issue.

Comment 6 by meh...@chromium.org, Dec 28

Components: -UI UI>Browser>ReaderMode
Labels: OS-Chrome OS-Linux OS-Mac
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