Google Reader Minimalistic

By Scott Cowan Last update Dec 16, 2008 — Installed 11,479 times. Daily Installs: 20, 16, 12, 9, 8, 9, 17, 12, 19, 13, 13, 9, 12, 16, 17, 17, 16, 17, 12, 13, 8, 13, 61, 41, 17, 14, 17, 12, 11, 26, 15, 12
Script Summary:
Google Reader Minimalistic removes the white space and extras from Google Reader and leaves you with just the news which is great for netbooks.

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Compatibility issue with Go...3
Update to remove "People/Pe...1
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completely hiding sidebar1

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Keyboard shortcuts

  • w - toggle fullscreen

google reader shortcuts

g t - go to tag
g u - go to subscription
g s - go to starred items

j - next item
k - prev item
s - star item

u - toggle left sidebar

Change Log

  • Jul 8,2009 - tested on Firefox 3.5
  • Mar 24,2009 - tested in Chrome 2.0.169.1 beta instructions on how to set it up
  • Dec 16,2008 - fix for font on current news item
  • Dec 15,2008 - decreased padding and post header font slightly, for more space.
  • Dec 11,2008 - fixed toggle from fullscreen with W key and removed old elements that don't exist
  • Dec 5,2008 - updated for new Google Reader Style
  • Aug 27,2008 - included google.co.uk in sites and tweaked for greasemonkey updates

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