Send Web pages to your Kindle with new Firefox add-on - moultrieheadee

This is an updated, Firefox-homeward-bound version of a post I wrote several months ago.

If you're a Firefox drug user and Kindle (or Kindle app) possessor, today's your serendipitous day: You canful now send Web pages directly to your mobile device.

Amazon has long offered the option of e-posting documents to your Conflagrate, only this is only the second time Send to Kindle has branched dead set a browser.

Just add the Send to Kindle extension to Firefox (IT's also available for Chromium-plate, with a Safari version climax soon), then navigate to some Web page you deficiency to economize. You can likewise select text on a page if you Don River't need the unit thing.

When you click the Send to Enkindle icon at the end of your address bar (it's represented past a little 'K'), you'll see two principal options: Broadcast to Kindle and Preview & Send. (If you've selected text, you'll also see Send Selected Text.) All pretty obvious, no?

The first time you use the lengthiness, you'll be ushered to the Settings page, where you buttocks select which of your Kindle devices should receive the content (if you have more than than one, that is) and whether to file away it in your Kindle library. You bottom return to this page later if requisite by clicking Settings within the extension menu.

In my quick tests of the annex, it worked care a charm. I definitely prefer using the Preview pick, which shows you how the page volition be formatted and lets you select font size and type, margins, background color, and delineate spacing. (That said, you canful usually adjust most of these options in whatever subscriber you're victimization equally well.)

Information technology also did a pretty good line of work of stripping away extraneous Net lug that you wouldn't want on your mobile device: ads, banners, buttons, and so on. More often than not you just mother the raw text and whatever primary images are integrated within the content.

Even so, one article I cut from Entertainment Weekly (a "Walk-to Dead" retread, just in case you'ray wondering) had quite a pot of "related article" links and whatnot, which cluttered ascending the textual matter a morsel.

That limited glitch aside, this is a must-have supplement for anyone who browses the Web with Firefox and reads stuff with a Kindle.

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