You know you’re addicted to Google Reader when you start writing Greasemonkey scripts to make it look better!
Google Reader is far and away the best feed aggregator out there but the interface could do with some improvement. Recently added was the much needed ability to hide the side menu but in the same update they added a honking great search bar at the top, a bunch of white space and some more buttons at the bottom! So I just decided to scrap everything at the top and bottom - making it much more readable in smaller browser windows. Download here.
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Updated 27th September 2007:
Google added a menu that cocked it up so I have updated the script remove the menu.
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Why would you want to hide the side bar?! You cant organise your feeds properly then
They have added an arrow with a drop down list and you can still pop the sidebar in and out.
The reason why this is needed is so the feeds take up the full width of the window and are not truncated. If you are like me and have a river of news approach to it then you very rarely need that side bar anyway.
How big’s your screen, John? Nice script an’ all, but is the space really that precious?
Wait. I just re-read, and you mention browsing in smaller windows; I’m guessing you tile a few windows at once?
Exactly. On my dual monitor setup I like it take up half of the second screen so I can cram more stuff on. This skin won’t be useful for everyone but def is for me.
Fair enough. Actually, your post prompted me to finally get around to using Google Reader (I’m practically an RSS virgin, having only flirted with KlipFolio for a little while). I’m liking it so far, but I’ll see how it goes…
perfect for the asus eee, or any small-screen laptop where every pixel of screen space counts. very nice job!