Tweak Google Reader sidebar
Posted by Percy Cabello on May 19th, 2008 • Tags:
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If you tried last week’s tip for adding the iPhone version of Google Reader as a Firefox sidebar, you probably quickly noticed that it’s not perfect: an ugly blue border around the Google logo and too large item titles may discourage you from using as your default reader.

The How-to Geek has a nice post on how to further customize the Google Reader sidebar hiding the Google logo and excerpts and setting the titles’ font size to something more convenient.

You will need to edit your userContent.css file adding these lines:

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document url-prefix(http://www.google.com/reader/i) {
.logo {display:none !important;}
* {font-size:0.97em !important; }
span.item-snippet {display:none !important;}
span.item-source-title{font-size:0.9em !important}
}

Google Reader sidebar tweaks

A better suited and better looking Firefox sidebar.

Comments
nemoman said on May 20, 2008, 12:15 am:

Still no hotkeys though…

Phoenix said on May 20, 2008, 2:46 am:

You can also ad that snippet to a new style in Stylish if you dont want to go poking around in your profile

Google Reader II « The Glitch said on May 21, 2008, 3:52 pm:

[...] here to further customize the Google Reader within the Firefox sidebar. It makes cosmetic improvements [...]

dan said on May 21, 2008, 6:45 pm:

I wish there was a way to set a hot key to op[en the pane. If there is a way i haven’t found one. :(

simon said on July 14, 2008, 11:30 am:

http://userstyles.org/styles/8683