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Post by jacquesg on Nov 23, 2017 18:42:53 GMT 1
Automatik Text Reader is obsolete and deactivated with Firefox 57 on Windows 7 64 bits.
Do you plan a compatible version ?
Thank you for your valuable dedication.
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Post by Admin on Dec 7, 2017 23:47:33 GMT 1
Thank you for being interested in ATR.
I don't plan to port this add-on to Firefox 57. I'm unaligned with Mozilla's attitude of periodically deprecating their APIs disrespectfully of the maintenance burden they impose on developers, they may receive good PR praising from the users but as an add-on maintainer I've long been fed up.
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Post by jacquesg on Dec 12, 2017 11:36:22 GMT 1
I understand you perfectly. And you are absolutely right to be outraged at Mozilla's behavior.
Since the obsoletism of ATR, I do not use Firefox anymore.
For now I use a personal local Javascript, "window.speechSynthesis.speak(lecture);" with Chrome, but it does not equal ATR.
Automatik Text Reader having been for me a great application, can I find it on another browser, or in another form ?
I thank you very much for everything you did for me.
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Post by Admin on Dec 12, 2017 15:33:17 GMT 1
ATR is made for Firefox so there's no way to use it on Chrome, Opera, Safari or Edge. There are some browsers which partially share the same source code of Firefox and could be compatible with ATR, like Seamonkey and Palemoon, but last time I checked those were lacking features and were not cutting-edge.
The easiest thing is to drop ATR and search for another text-to-speech add-on for Chrome (or Firefox). There are alternatives and some of them have superior features to ATR. Installing such an add-on will give you the highest return for the time spent, as it'd be readily available on the Chrome store, it'd be "guaranteed" to work, and you wouldn't have to write your own scripts in order to have speech synthesis.
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Post by jacquesg on Dec 13, 2017 15:41:34 GMT 1
Well, I will follow your recommendations.
Regarding Firefox, he has now lost his benefits to me. No more add-on that I was using works. The last one was ATR.
I thank you again and warmly congratulate you, for having offered for free, to all humanity.
I will come back from time to time to see if there is anything new.
Yours sincerely.
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