14 DAY TRIAL // While Microsoft has already surrendered in the browser world and decided to move Edge to the Chromium engine, it doesn’t mean that this application doesn’t come with advanced features that are worth copying.
And by the looks of things, Google totally agrees with this, as the company is getting ready to borrow another idea from rival browsers.
This time, it’s a reading mode that’s already available in Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and even Vivaldi, and Google apparently wants this feature to be part of an upcoming stable release of Chrome too.
Details at this point are scarce, but a recent bug report indicates that the reading mode is supposed to work on all platforms where Google Chrome is available, including Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Currently in the works
The reading view in Microsoft Edge provides users with an easy and simple way to read documents and articles online, with the browser extracting metadata like title, author, date, main text content, images, and copyright.
“Microsoft Edge provides a reading view for a more streamlined, book-like reading experience of webpages without the distraction of unrelated or other secondary content on the page. Reading view can be toggled on or off from the Reading view (book icon) button on the address bar (or with Ctrl + Shift + R),” Microsoft explains.
The feature works similarly in Mozilla Firefox and the other browsers where it’s available, and it’s likely to do the same when it becomes available in Google Chrome.
At this point, there are no details as to when Google could bring this feature in a stable Chrome update, but given it is already in the works, it shouldn't take too long before it becomes available in the Canary testing builds.
If you're on Windows 10 and want to see the reading mode in action, just open this story in Microsoft Edge and click the dedicated option in the address bar.
Via TechDows