Enable distill mode in Chromium

Distill mode in Chromium is firefox’s “reader view” equivalent. For some reason, this feature has not still “graduated” to be enabled by default, but it is just a matter of setting a flag.

To find out the way to set a flag, I popped open /usr/bin/chromium-browser file and quickly noticed following comment in the script:

# default CHROMIUM_FLAGS (from /etc/$APPNAME/default)

So I opened that file in my favorite text editor code /etc/chromium-browser/default :

Original file contents:

# Default settings for chromium-browser. This file is sourced by /bin/sh from
# /usr/bin/chromium-browser

# Options to pass to chromium-browser
CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""

Modified file contents:

# Default settings for chromium-browser. This file is sourced by /bin/sh from
# /usr/bin/chromium-browser

# Options to pass to chromium-browser
CHROMIUM_FLAGS="–enable-dom-distiller"

Save and close. Restart your browser, and voila!
Now you will see “Distill Page” option in the menu.

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