<p>WOW, notrichenough. That was easy. This one may be a bit too compressed. But now that I have the script customized, I can probably fool around with that myself. THANKS!</p>
<p>The beauty part about these changes, nre, is that they can be logically undone, yes. But the fact is, most of us don’t have the will to go about customizing- nor the time to educate ourselves to the specifics for various platforms or changes. Yup, PG is smart enough. But doesn’t wish to go there. Me, either. Just sayin’. </p>
<p>I’ve had enough trouble tracking down what my present add-ons are, deciding if they are legit or what their functional purpose is. (When I was having system issues that hinted at add-ons.) </p>
<p>But kudos for your ingenuity. And I learned from your posts.</p>
<p>
The biggest offender is in the first section:
.Section-Discussion #Content .Item {
...
padding: 3px 0;
...
}
The original was 35px, which means there are a lot of wasted pixels per post.</p>
<p>If you enable the Add-on bar (View->Toolbars->Add-on Bar), you can click the “Customize Your Web” icon and bring up the editor. Select the “Insert Style Sheet[1]” action and click edit. </p>
<p>This opens a dialog that lets you modify any of these in real-time. Change the 3px back to 35 px and… yeah. </p>
<p>Impressive @notrichenough. So Doug, Roger or any other moderator/administrator that might be still with us, can you kindly do all that on your end?</p>
<p>A week later, and really, I’m getting more used to things. The subtle changes made since last week have helped. I’m over the hump of being too worried about things. I have faith that with time ( and not too much of it) things will continue to improve.</p>
<p>Ouch! That yellow is painful! I m ok with the white compared to the yellow!</p>
<p>** typo. Guess I was temporarily blinded! :(( </p>
<p>I don’t even know what Firefox is, so I sure as heck wouldn’t know how to install it, what it would do to my existing system, much less start mucking around in it. Too much work stuff is riding on this computer for me to play amateur IT. </p>
<p>It’s just a search engine. It’s really easy even for me and I know nothing.</p>
<p>Firefox is a search engine that many prefer to Internet Explorer. I do. It’s free. We are allowed to install it at work, and we are pretty restricted. Chrome is also a search engine.</p>
<p>
FireFox is one of the three most popular web browsers, the others being Internet Explorer (IE) and Chrome.</p>
<p>It is free, you can download it [url=<a href=“http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/26.0/system-requirements/]here[/url”>Firefox 26.0 System Requirements]here[/url</a>]. If you’ve ever installed a program before, it will be a familiar process. It won’t affect anything else running on your computer, it just takes up a little disk space and some memory while running.</p>
<p>I don’t know whether the other browsers allow the kind of customization I did; someone upstream said you can with Chrome, but I don’t use Chrome so…</p>
<p>It took me a couple hours to work out the changes, and IMHO it makes being on here a much more pleasant experience, so I am just trying to share what I did with others. It is easy to undo if you don’t like it.</p>
<p>
Haha, yep!</p>
<p>After I saw that I modified it to tone it down in my browser. Fortunately the [ code ] tag doesn’t get used a lot.</p>
<p>I’ve installed the add-on and it’s working fine. I do like seeing the user icons so I’m going to tweak it a bit to get those back. I’m running FireFox 26.0 and have a slightly different sequence to import the settings. For me Step 6 looked like:</p>
<p>Add-on -> Extensions -> options -> scripts.</p>
<p>The biggest advantages to this change for me are the reduction in white space and the light gray background.</p>
<p>Thanks for posting, notrichenough.</p>
<p>Edited to add:
to get the user icons back, just remove these lines from the script:</p>
<p>.Section-Discussion #Content .Item .Author .PhotoWrap {
display: none;
float: none;
margin: 0px 0px 5px;
}</p>
<p>^ or change </p>
<p>display: none;</p>
<p>to</p>
<p>display: block;</p>
<p>@mom2collegekids - I have blue eyes and the white doesn’t bother me.</p>
<p>^^
I was just wondering because I have brown eyes and the white doesn’t bother me at all. But I know that my blue-eyed H is light-sensitive. </p>
<p>I have blue eyes…the white bothers me…but I don’t think it is because of my eye color!</p>
<p>Another blue eyed and bothered. My eyes are normally anything but sensitive.</p>
<p>Blue eyed and not bothered!</p>
<p>I have blue eyes, and the white doesn’t particularly bother me. Most of the programs I work in all day long have white backgrounds - Outlook, gmail, Word, Excel, Lync, Sharepoint, TFS, Visual Studio, various text editors, Windows explorer, etc.</p>
<p>The difference is in the density of information displayed on the screen. There is so little displayed on the default CC layout that it is somewhat aggravating, which is why I spent time tightening it up.</p>
<p>I flip back and forth between a white and light grey background on my computer for CC. Sometimes I like one better, sometimes the other.</p>
<p>Changing the background color is a very easy fix for CC. Given that it has not been changed, and the administrators have skirted the issues when asked directly about it, looks like the message is we are going to have to live with it. Really unfortunate. </p>