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Elliot Kirk
Former Employee
Jun 10, 2019

Reading View in Insider Channels

Microsoft Edge’s reading view experience is designed to let you read web content without any extraneous information or anything jarring that strain your eyes. Reading is  one of the primary activit...
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ikjadoon
Bronze Contributor
Jun 10, 2019

Elliot Kirk 

I love it! This will be perfect for ad-heavy sites. I use it incessantly on mobile because of the crazy clutter (and poor mobile responsiveness) on some sites, so I'm super happy to see it on desktop.

 

My only feature request (already sent via the smiley): adding a shortcut key combo to open Reading View? I'd like to quickly open Reading View as soon as I see a lot of ads--usually, my hands are on the keyboard already after going to a site.

 

"CTRL+SHIFT+R", used for Reading View in Classic Edge, just reloads the page on Edge Dev 76.0.176.1.

 

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    aditya10
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    Jun 13, 2019

    Hi ikjadoon 

     

    Thanks for the feedback. We are delighted to know that you are enjoying the experience.  

     

    Yes, adding a keyboard shortcut for quick navigation is on the cards and will feature soon. 

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