Firefox Reader View: Strip Away Clutter for Distraction-Free Reading

Many webpages are filled with advertisements, pop-up windows, blinking banners, sidebars, and other distractions that make the actual article you came to read difficult to find and focus on. Firefox Reader View solves this problem by stripping away everything except the article's text and relevant images, presenting them in a clean, calm layout that is much easier to read.

Reader View is built directly into Firefox — the free web browser from Mozilla. When you visit a news article, blog post, recipe, or any text-heavy page, a small icon appears in the address bar at the top of the browser. Clicking that icon instantly switches the page to Reader View, hiding all the ads and clutter. Clicking it again returns to the normal page.

Once in Reader View, you have several appearance controls. You can make the text larger or smaller, switch between light and dark backgrounds, change the font to a more readable style, and adjust the width of the text column. If you prefer a white background with large dark text, or a dark background with white text for evening reading, Reader View lets you choose.

Firefox also includes a "Narrate" feature inside Reader View that reads the article aloud using your computer's text-to-speech system. This is similar to Edge's Read Aloud feature and is useful for listening to articles while doing something else.

Reader View works on most article-style webpages. It does not work on homepages, video pages, or pages that are primarily images or interactive content — only pages where the main purpose is readable text. The small book-page icon in the address bar is your signal that Reader View is available for the current page.