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0 pointsuserbinator5y ago0 comments

Chrome removed that functionality a few years ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1ymfgw/user_stylesh...

(The comment there that removing this "is going to help increase speed significantly in the future" is pure BS. If anything, user stylesheet functionality was handled in native code --- just adding another CSS to the page --- which makes it far more efficient than going through the whole JS/extensions route.)

Ironically, IE11 is the last MS browser to support user stylesheets (Tools->Options->Accessibility) but Edge doesn't.

Even in Firefox, the fact that it's named "toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets" is ominous.

The Internet is becoming more and more user-hostile, and it's not just websites who are responsible.

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encom5y ago

>The Internet is becoming more and more user-hostile, and it's not just websites who are responsible.

That's because the webbrowser has been pushed away from hyperlinked documents viewer, to essentially a virtual machine running untrusted code from anywhere.

It's probably Googles fault somehow. They seem determined to ruin everything.

myfonj5y ago

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=347016

Issue asking for reintroducing native user style sheets in Chrome, with precise argumentation and long discussion. Does not seem likely to be heard, but symbolical starring doesn't hurt…

bobbyz5y ago

It would be helpful if this could have been indicated

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