Tranquility Reader for Chrome/Chromium is an extension that improves the readability of web articles.
Tranquility Reader was originally written for Firefox and has been recently ported to Chrome/Chromium.
Tranquility removes unnecessary elements in a webpage, and provides a simple and tranquil reading experience. Similar functionality is available through Readability or iReader or "Reader Mode" in Firefox. Please try the built in "Reader Mode" first and then consider Tranquility Reader only if some of the features available only in Tranquility Reader are critical for you.
- Click on the navigation-bar icon to transform the page
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Compatible with NoScript
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Save content offline for reading later. The tranquility view is saved locally on your computer
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Ability to export/import the offline content.
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Ability to customize default font, font-size, font color, background color, and width of the reading area (you can use https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_picker.asp to pick a suitable color code - thanks to user JA for feedback on this)
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Create and manage your own preset configuration of the various options/preferences
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Add/edit notes/annotations to portions of the offline content; collate annotations with context for a summary of all your notes and annotations.
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Unobtrusive Menu at the bottom of the screen (displayed on clicking on the (+) symbol on the bottom right corner of the screen) provides additional features
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Additional links are now available through a "More Links" button in the Menu at the bottom of the screen
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Left clicking on a link in the Tranquility view will also open the link URL in the Tranquility view in the current tab
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Transform only a portion of the webpage by highlighting the text and then running Tranquility (right click context menu option - "Tranquilize Selection". Available from 3.0.7)
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The Chrome Webstore review process has become more demanding with longer review times for certain permissions (like "<all_urls">) due to which this permission is no longer requested
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Due to above, when left clicking on a link in the Tranquility view, only links within the same domain will be opened in the Tranquility view; other webpages will show a red color progress bar to indicate that Chrome is disallowing this behaviour. Clicking a second time will open the link without processing it.
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Also, the right click context menu to open a link in a new tab and then transform the page into the Tranquility Reader view will also not work now (without the "<all_urls>" permission).
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An attempt will be made soon to request the "<all_urls>" permission in the next version, but if this is rejected by the Chrome webstore, the extension will no longer support this functionality.
Tranquility is provided under GPLv3 license. Copyright (C) 2012-2020 Arun Kunchithapatham
This addon does not collect or transmit any information to an external website. All processing and data storage is local to your browser. For more details, see the PRIVACY.md file.
Please use Github to send any feedback, bug reports, enhancement requests.
Please check the RELEASE-NOTES.md file for detailed release notes.