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Especially since it's global across Google Reader. I couldn't care less that some random person in Florida that uses reader liked an article that ended up in my

by smokinn 17y ago

Especially since it's global across Google Reader. I couldn't care less that some random person in Florida that uses reader liked an article that ended up in my rss feed. I wish I could turn it off.

randomwalker 17y ago
You can turn it off. I spend a lot of time in Google Reader, so efficiency and lack of distractions is very important to me. I turn off widgets that I don't use in most of the sites that I frequent. The way you can turn it off it to install the Stylish extension for Firefox (which allows user specified style sheets on a per-site basis), use Firebug to find the div id or class of the widget you don't like, and set it to "display: none !important". Stylish is similar to greasemonkey, which means that you can usually find someone who's already done what you're looking for, and shared it. Here is my stylesheet to make Google reader minimalistic: http://userstyles.org/styles/12663 http://userstyles.org/styles/12663 and here is what it looks like when installed: http://bit.ly/minimalreader http://bit.ly/minimalreader You can temporarily disable it with a single click when you want to use any of the hidden widgets.
- smokinn 17y ago
  Thanks but that only works on Firefox and I generally prefer to use Chrome since it's so much faster. (The difference is even more striking in Linux than it is in Windows.)
  - randomwalker 17y ago
    Apparently Chrome supports greasemonkey: http://mashable.com/2008/12/15/google-chrome-greasemonkey-scripts/ http://mashable.com/2008/12/15/google-chrome-greasemonkey-sc... (All Stylish styles are available as greasemonkey scripts.)
    - smokinn 17y ago
      Windows only though. I don't have windows. I'll try that once plugin support works in Linux. Thanks.
boundlessdreamz 17y ago
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/53924 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/53924 While you can hide the number of likes using other scripts, I did want to see the number. So I moved it to the most logical place. Right next to the “Like link”

by smokinn 17y ago

Especially since it's global across Google Reader. I couldn't care less that some random person in Florida that uses reader liked an article that ended up in my rss feed. I wish I could turn it off.

randomwalker 17y ago

You can turn it off. I spend a lot of time in Google Reader, so efficiency and lack of distractions is very important to me. I turn off widgets that I don't use in most of the sites that I frequent. The way you can turn it off it to install the Stylish extension for Firefox (which allows user specified style sheets on a per-site basis), use Firebug to find the div id or class of the widget you don't like, and set it to "display: none !important". Stylish is similar to greasemonkey, which means that you can usually find someone who's already done what you're looking for, and shared it. Here is my stylesheet to make Google reader minimalistic: http://userstyles.org/styles/12663 http://userstyles.org/styles/12663 and here is what it looks like when installed: http://bit.ly/minimalreader http://bit.ly/minimalreader You can temporarily disable it with a single click when you want to use any of the hidden widgets.

smokinn 17y ago
Thanks but that only works on Firefox and I generally prefer to use Chrome since it's so much faster. (The difference is even more striking in Linux than it is in Windows.)
- randomwalker 17y ago
  Apparently Chrome supports greasemonkey: http://mashable.com/2008/12/15/google-chrome-greasemonkey-scripts/ http://mashable.com/2008/12/15/google-chrome-greasemonkey-sc... (All Stylish styles are available as greasemonkey scripts.)
  - smokinn 17y ago
    Windows only though. I don't have windows. I'll try that once plugin support works in Linux. Thanks.

boundlessdreamz 17y ago

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/53924 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/53924 While you can hide the number of likes using other scripts, I did want to see the number. So I moved it to the most logical place. Right next to the “Like link”