Stylish -- User CSS for Firefox Made Simple
Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 at 8:33 PM by Randall
Firefox has the abilty to apply user CSS stylesheets to individual web sites to allow one to modify how they look when you are viewing them. Unfortunately, it is not easy to do. Not only do you have to know enough CSS to be able to write a user stylesheet for a specific web site, but you have to be willing to modify various Firefox user files to make your changes. Enter Stylish -- a Firefox extention that makes using user CSS easy.
From the Stylish web site:
Stylish is a Firefox, Thunderbird, and Flock extension that allows easy management of user styles. User styles empower your browsing experience by letting you fix ugly sites, customize the look of your browser or mail client, or just have fun. With an online repository at userstyles.org, you don't even need to know how to write styles yourself; just a couple clicks and the chosen style is applied. Stylish is to CSS what Greasemonkey is to JavaScript, and unlike other methods of using user styles, most styles take effect immediately.
The really nice thing about Stylish is that it lets you install user CSS directly from userstyles.org. One doesn't have to know a thing about writing CSS to do this. In fact, you can even search userstyles.org for user CSS for the web page you are on (from the Stylish icon on the status bar). You will need to visit the Stylish help page to make the best use of this extension. Unfortunately, they seem to hide the link to it after displaying it when you install the extension, so here it is: http://userstyles.org/stylish/help/. This extension can also be used in Thunderbird (for modifying its user interface).
Rating: 4 Stars
System: Mozilla Firefox Extension
License:
Open Source
Price: Free
Version Reviewed: 0.3.1
Web
Site: http://userstyles.org/stylish/