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For months now, I've occasionally had a pop-up appear over the current page in Firefox saying that I had invoked "Send to Kindle". This puzzled me as I don't have - or particularly want - a Kindle, have no Kindle support add-ons or apps installed and never have had.
But tonight, I found it. It's Readability. I have this handy site's add-on installed - it allows you to remove almost all the formatting from a webpage, reducing it to plain monochrome text for easier reading, especially of long documents. I don't use it often, but when I do, I am jolly grateful for it.
And it has a "send to Kindle" feature, which activates even if you've never filled-in a Kindle email address. If, for example, you don't have one, say.
Worse still, it's bound by default to Ctrl-K, which is also the hotkey for the search box at the top right of the Firefox window - so every time I hit Ctrl-K to Google something, I get this pesky "Send to Kindle" overlay appearing and then disappearing again before I can do anything. It's foiled by not having a magic Kindle email address filled in to actually send to, I think.
Here's how to turn it off.
[1] Go to Tools | Addons.
[2] Go down to the "Extensions" tab.
[3] Look for "Readability".
[4] Click on it, then click the "Preferences" button (or just click its prefs button directly).
[5] You should get a pop-up options box entitled "READABILITY SHORTCUTS for FIREFOX". The third field is "Send to Kindle".
[6] Click the circular "X" button at the end of this field to disable this feature.
I won't miss it, I think...
But tonight, I found it. It's Readability. I have this handy site's add-on installed - it allows you to remove almost all the formatting from a webpage, reducing it to plain monochrome text for easier reading, especially of long documents. I don't use it often, but when I do, I am jolly grateful for it.
And it has a "send to Kindle" feature, which activates even if you've never filled-in a Kindle email address. If, for example, you don't have one, say.
Worse still, it's bound by default to Ctrl-K, which is also the hotkey for the search box at the top right of the Firefox window - so every time I hit Ctrl-K to Google something, I get this pesky "Send to Kindle" overlay appearing and then disappearing again before I can do anything. It's foiled by not having a magic Kindle email address filled in to actually send to, I think.
Here's how to turn it off.
[1] Go to Tools | Addons.
[2] Go down to the "Extensions" tab.
[3] Look for "Readability".
[4] Click on it, then click the "Preferences" button (or just click its prefs button directly).
[5] You should get a pop-up options box entitled "READABILITY SHORTCUTS for FIREFOX". The third field is "Send to Kindle".
[6] Click the circular "X" button at the end of this field to disable this feature.
I won't miss it, I think...
