I’m aware of that and mention it in the description: The way this add-on activates the Reader View is still not supported by Firefox but eventually will be. I created an alternative for the time being: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/activate-reader-view-bookmark/

Ja, sehr nervig! Ich habe jetzt ein Add-on erstellt, das das Problem mit Hilfe von Lesezeichen umgeht: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/activate-reader-view-bookmark/

Hi, thanks for your feedback!

What this add-on does is, it just helps activating the Reader View, which is an internal Firefox tool (see http://mzl.la/1cHarCP). Hence, requests concerning the Reader View itself (and not issues regarding opening it with this add-on) should be directed to Mozilla's Bugzilla platform and specifically tagged with "Component: Reader Mode": https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?component=Reader%20Mode&product=Toolkit&bug_status=__open__

Hi, thanks for the feedback!

Yes, you are right, I haven't noticed that: The new WebExtensions API for the reader mode does not allow pages to be forced into reader mode.

I wrote to the API developer, let's hope that this behaviour will change: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1286387#c16

[edit 2017-12-5] Alright, behaviour will be changed, only a matter of time now!

Thank you for the feedback! Starting with Firefox 58 and version 0.1.0 of this add-on, Firefox “Quantum” is supported.

Hi,
thank you for the feedback!

What this add-on does is it basically calls the reader mode which is integrated into Firefox using a provided protocol. In Pale Moon, however, the reader mode is most likely not meant to be accessible, neither by users nor by add-ons.

One therefore first has to tweak the Pale Moon source code in a way that the reader mode becomes accessible.

But there already exist add-ons that mimic the behaviour of the Firefox reader mode and work for Pale Moon, for example “Enjoy Reading” [1] which also specifically targets Pale Moon [2]. Another one working for Pale Moon is “TidyRead” [3], which runs only in compatibility mode right now, though.

Hope this helps!

Links
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/enjoy-reading/
[2] https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?p=115026#p115026
[3] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tidyread/

Hi, thanks for the feedback!

> Will there be a webextension?

The Reader View is right now accessed by using Firefox' internal ‘about:’ protocol. Currently there is neither a way to work on pages behind that protocol, i. e. redirecting to such a page, using WebExtensions nor exists a specific Reader View API.

The latter, however, might get implemented as announced on the respective mailinglist: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/dev-addons/2017-August/003063.html
The corresponding bug, to which the lowest ‘P5’ priority is assigned, can be found here: https://bugzil.la/1286387

Once the functionality is available, I plan to update the add-on.

[Update 2017-11-20]
Add-on has been updated to work in Firefox “Quantum”.

> It is a great tool and thank you for providing it. It does not
> render the original date of the articles. For some reason it
> updates the date and time to current time. Please fix.

Hi, thanks for your feedback!

In general, this add-on just helps activating the Reader View, which is an internal Firefox tool (see http://mzl.la/1cHarCP). Hence, requests concerning the Reader View itself (and not issues regarding opening it with this add-on) should be directed to Mozilla's Bugzilla platform and specifically tagged with "Component: Reader Mode": https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?component=Reader%20Mode&product=Toolkit&bug_status=__open__

Now regarding your issue: As far as I know, the Reader View displays in its upper left corner the estimated time needed to read the article and *not* the date/time when the article has been published. It is possible, however, that in your case those publishing information where additionally displayed somewhere and were incorrect. That may be out of control of the reader view. But as I said, either file a bug or ask in Mozilla's support forum (https://support.mozilla.org/) for help, as it's a Firefox internal thing.