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Martin Brinkmann at gHacks reports
Users of Stylish [a web browser extension "that can apply a user-supplied style sheet to a web page, in addition to the Cascading Style Sheets provided by the website itself"] who have set their styles to auto-update may have noticed that they become corrupt in the process since October 6, 2016.
This is caused by an infrastructure move after ownership of the project was transferred to another party.
[...] Probably the biggest issue right now is that users are reporting that styles are not delivered in working condition during updates. It seems to be a transport issue and not one of storage.
[...] It is highly suggested to turn off automatic updates for userstyles until the issue is resolved.
[...] The issues [share] similarities with how the then-popular userscripts.org website stopped working from one day to the next. Lets hope that this is not a repeat of that.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @09:10PM
The original, entire point of browsers and HTML was that you, the end-user, could change the layout to best support your device and preferences. One of the main features of early browsers was how easy they let you modify and save custom CSS files for each site. Browsers slowly removed those features and its now very difficult to do.
There shouldn't be an extension that does this. It should still be part of the browser.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 10 2016, @10:00PM
javascript:(function(){for(i=0;i<document.styleSheets.length;i++){void(document.styleSheets.item(i).disabled=true)}el=document.getElementsByTagName('*');for(i=0;i<el.length;i++){void(el[i].style.cssText='')}if%20(!document.getElementById('someuniqueid')){var%20objHead%20=%20document.getElementsByTagName('head');%20if%20(objHead[0]){if%20(document.createElementNS%20&&%20objHead[0].tagName%20==%20'head')%20var%20objCSS%20=%20objHead[0].appendChild(document.createElementNS('http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml',%20'link'));%20else%20var%20objCSS%20=%20objHead[0].appendChild(document.createElement('link'));%20objCSS.id%20=%20'someuniqueid';%20objCSS.rel%20=%20'stylesheet';%20objCSS.href%20=%20'https://localhost/custom.css';%20objCSS.type%20=%20'text/css';}}})()
don't forget to replace https://localhost/custom.css with your actual custom CSS. It has to be hosted via https in order to make this bookmarklet work on https-enabled websites.
(Score: 3, Informative) by maxwell demon on Tuesday October 11 2016, @06:44AM
To remove all style elements, Firefox has a special option (you can choose "no style"). In the German version on Linux, it's in the menu "Ansicht" (should be "View" in the English version) under the submenu "Webseiten-Stil" (maybe it's "web page style" in the English version). So for that, you don't need a bookmarklet.
Yes, you need to show the menu bar; I don't see a way to access this feature from the devolved user interface. Fortunately they still have not completely removed the menu bar, just hidden it by default.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 11 2016, @05:19AM
I completely agree. Reading this white text on black background this very moment.
The Reader view in Firefox is a weak attempt to make it so for the masses. Too bad the column width can't be easily manipulated.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 11 2016, @02:06PM
Does anyone else remember that Mosaic had a built-in function to add comments to web sites?