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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: October 31, 2008
- Total Downloads: 12,420
- Downloads last week: 23
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 7 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This Firefox extension should appeal to anybody trying to minimize bookmark and open tab clutter. Read It Later gives you a one-click option for saving the links and keeping track of which ones have been read. It also now sports deep integration with Google Reader.
When you first start the extension, it will prompt you to install the two Toolbar buttons that are used to control the extension and manage your reading list. Users can also control adding bookmarks to their reading list via the context menu, the Bookmarks menu itself, or with hot keys, making access to your daily detritus fast and painless. The toolbar button "Read This Page Later" is great for adding loaded URLs, while the "R" plus left-click hot key was easiest for saving links.
The second Toolbar button manages your "Read something later" list. Click to open a saved page, or hit the drop-down list for more choices. Saved pages can be opened in a new tab or the current one, you can open the entire reading list into new tabs simultaneously, and you can also set the button to open pages randomly or in order. You can also set the bookmark folder that pages are saved to, and users who really want to explore the extension's abilities can play around with the less-stable Offline reading option.
Read It Later ran smoothly and glitch-free, and it is exceptionally useful at simultaneously killing Firefox tab clutter and skyrocketing RAM use while improving your reading habits.
Publisher's description
From Nate Weiner :This Firefox extension allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest. Version 0.992 includes Firefox 3.1b compatibility, full Ubuntu support, option to control how click-to-save checkmarks appear, option to hide the plaintext password inside the sync settings, ability to select a Read It Later folder in the Bookmarks Toolbar, improves foreign characters support, and option to close the current tab when saving a page.
CNET Editor's Note: The Download Now link will prompt a local download of the Firefox extension. To install the extension directly, open the file using your Firefox browser.
What's new in this version:
Version 0.992 includes Firefox 3.1b compatibility, full Ubuntu support, option to control how click-to-save checkmarks appear, option to hide the plaintext password inside the sync settings, ability to select a Read It Later folder in the Bookmarks Toolbar, improves foreign characters support, and option to close the current tab when saving a page.
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Version: Read It Later 0.992
"Not compatible with my latest Firefox!!"
Pros: Couldn't use it.
Cons: Not compatible with my latest Firefox!!
Summary: Not compatible with my latest Firefox!!
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