Google Reader Minimalistic

By Scott Cowan Last update Jun 29, 2011 — Installed 23,321 times.

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The following is an archive of comments made before threaded discussions was implemented (November 16th, 2008)

 
anonymous_user User

Would it be possible to integrate Google Reader Hide navbar with your script? I prefer having the sidebar arrow hidden too.

 
Scott Cowan Script's Author

hmm thats odd I'm running Ad Block Plus too, without an exception on google.com/reader. I'm glad you got it going

 
l3utterfish User

hi Scott,

Found the problem, it WAS NOT your script (sorry..)
It was the shitty AD BLOCK PLUS extension.

Thanks anyway for your answers, and specially for your sCript. Definetily one of my favs.
Keep the good work!

 
Scott Cowan Script's Author

so you load the page and it looks like that or you've pressed w and it looks like that?

is that on google.com?

 
l3utterfish User

here is a screenshot.
I try to subscribe to a site, it shows me the post, but not the button to subscribe and to choose the categories.
I have firefox 3.0.1
and my desktop is 1920x1200

Imagen hospedada en http://l3utterfish.blogspot.com

 
Scott Cowan Script's Author

so when its fullscreen the add subscription button is missing from the sidebar? what resolution and FF version are you running? do you have a screen shot maybe?

 
l3utterfish User

having problems with the design in the top part. I see a bit of the gogole logo, cover by search bar.
but the most important is that i dont see the subscribe option to a blog in the top. (when i hit w)
left panel when i hit U working fine.

 
rsanders User

thanks for the quick fix scott

 
Scott Cowan Script's Author

Thanks Pete0r

 
Pete0r User

Thanks for the fast response.. this is one of my favorite scripts!

 
Scott Cowan Script's Author

I removed that line and added support for google.co.uk/reader

 
Eugene Schava Scriptwright

it seems reason is in "unsafeWindow.AK();" line
maybe it throws an exception

 
Jason C. Romero User

I'm getting the same error. I have other scripts, but if I turn them all off and just have GRM up, it still produces this behavior. Page is completely blank. I can hit W to see the menu at the top, but that is it. U has no effect.

 
Scott Cowan Script's Author

hmm its still working for me, anyone else having a problem?

do you have any other scripts installed?

 
Scott Cowan Script's Author

has anyone had any layout issues, I could see a bit of the google logo in the top left today but after refreshing the I couldn't replicate it.

 
anemos Scriptwright

Just thought I'd let you know unsafeWindow.AK() changed to BK().. currently my solution though is to trigger the "u" keyboard event two times, hides/shows the nav-bar, this way googles own JS tells it to refresh the view.

Another solution would be to use regexp to search for the function and trigger it.

 
Scott Cowan Script's Author

Thanks Danny, I'm glad I could help

 
Danny Bartlett User

Awesome! Kudos for the speedy fix. This is my favourite script by far.

 
Scott Cowan Script's Author

Hi Danny, I've just updated with a fix to ignore Cmd+W and Alt+W in addition to Ctlr-W let me know if you have a problem

 
Danny Bartlett User

One thing I find REALLY ANNOYING which didnt happen before - Command + W on the mac (Same as Control + w) does not close tab anymore, but instead hides/shows the header. I'm using Firefox 3.0

 
Scott Cowan Script's Author

Just updated to remove the blue border around news items

Thanks merttt, it's really cool to hear, sadly there's no greasemonkey on my windows mobile.

I'm not sure what to do with those boxes, I just leave the subscriptions collapsed all the time but I could see how its a problem since it doesn't scroll

 
Scott Cowan Script's Author

Thanks anemos, I've added that in there and your right this is the only place its documented

 
anemos Scriptwright

Hei, great script. I've got an idea for improvement though!
As i noticed it doesn't recalculate windows size whenever you hit "w" so some elements are hidden in "full screen". I'm quite sure this ISN'T a feature, but a bug. A solution is to add this at the end of function toggle_gr():

unsafeWindow.AK();

unsafeWindow basically says to use the pages own javascripts, not limited to the functions within greasemonkey. Now don't ask me how i found out that this function recalculates the size of the window, it was like finding a needle in a haystack, i guarantee! (doubt it is documented anywhere, and GReaders .js file is hellish..)

 
cintra User

Hei Scott and thanks. It was good mental exercise to work out what worked :)

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