Indistinguishable from Jesse

Stylish, a Firefox extension by Jason Barnabe, lets you manage CSS rules to change the appearance of web sites.

Stylish is to CSS what Greasemonkey is to JavaScript. Stylish allows you to easily manage user styles for the application UI, all websites, or only certain websites. Stylish is better than using userChrome.css/userContent.css because styles are applied immediately instead of requiring a restart.

Some Greasemonkey scripts only add stylesheets. These scripts would work better as user stylesheet additions, because user style rules are applied immediately rather than only after the page finishes loading. Stylish makes it as easy to add a user stylesheet as it is to install Greasemonkey scripts.

You can use it with pre-written user style rules such as my examples or you can write your own as you use the extension. The test styles bookmarklet, which lets you experiment with added CSS rules, complements Stylish well.

Update 2005-02-11: Updated link to point to userstyles.org/stylish instead of the extension's forum thread.

The new version fo my Flash Click-to-View XBL works with <embed> Flash in addition to <object> Flash.

Previous versions didn't block <embed> because they used <xbl:content>, which doesn't work with replaced plugin elements (bug 190970). Previous versions didn't really work with <object> either; instead, they took advantage of the fact that Mozilla ignores most <object>s and looks at the <embed>s they contain instead. The new version uses JavaScript in the <xbl:constructor> to replace the Flash with the placeholder.

The extensions that use modified versions of my XBL, Ted Mielczarek's Flash Click-to-View and Theodore Drake's Flashblock, haven't been updated to use the new code yet. These extensions make it easier to install the XBL, but they must be reinstalled each time you get a new build.

I edited Google's home page to make it as small as I could without changing how it looks. The result is 30% smaller and works slightly better.

Most of the changes that weren't simple deletions involved the code for the tabs above the search box.