Summary
I am looking for the criteria by which I can create a webpage and be [fairly] sure it will appear in the Firefox
You need at least one tag around the text, that you want to see in Reader View, and at least 516 characters in 7 words inside the text.
for example this will trigger the ReaderView:
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
123456789 123456
See my example at https://stackoverflow.com/a/30750212/1069083