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How come Chrome does not have a reading tab like Firefox?

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Hello, I noticed this tonight, and it really bugs me, especially on websites like with science articles where I am staring at the left side of my screen only to read the article, but in Firefox that same article, I hit the reading mode button at the top and boom it centers everything and makes it like a nice ebook look almost...

Just a very nice feature and I am curious as to why Chrome does not have this feature.
 

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Hello, I noticed this tonight, and it really bugs me, especially on websites like with science articles where I am staring at the left side of my screen only to read the article, but in Firefox that same article, I hit the reading mode button at the top and boom it centers everything and makes it like a nice ebook look almost...

Just a very nice feature and I am curious as to why Chrome does not have this feature.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...ng-mod/oiembdaoobijmdmeobkalaehgifealpl?hl=en
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/just-read/dgmanlpmmkibanfdgjocnabmcaclkmod?hl=en
 

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I know, I already looked at this, the Just Read one has an adblocker built in, but that means it can read all websites, including passwords I enter... I only trust Ublock Origin for that... wouldn't be surprised if these low review amounts... allow for nefarious activities in the background scripting... :/

Firefox its built in automatically, so I have no worries...
 

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omg that worked perfect, and its built into Chrome so no addon risk... lol works great on SparkNotes, thanks man!!!!
ROFL Oh good grief!! That's the first thing I looked at, and I thought "Nah, that looks to messy, he wouldn't want that... wonder if there's an addon that does it better?"
 
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