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This is something I've been wanting for a while. You could probably build an extension to accomplish that. One hard challenge would be extracting content and then displaying it in a way that retains its semantics across the web, including navigation, sidebars, etc. Another would be form handling.

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How about an extension that does it -after- the browser has implemented reader view? Then all that is already taken care of.

Thank you for your feedback. I do plan to turn this into a browser plugin.

That would be absolutely awesome.

If you're not already considering it, the Readability.js module might make this more straightforward:

<https://github.com/mozilla/readability>

(I think. I've looked into this but not applied it directly myself yet.)

Thank you for your suggestion. I may look into the implementation of how it fetches the main article of the document.

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