I’ve made a cool Stylish style to place a nice colorful Firefox logo in place of the boring solid white about:blank page. Alot better than my previous ugly dark page with “about:blank” lettering.
Download the Stylish script here.
If you’re not familiar with Stylish… here’s what you need to use Stylish scripts:
- Firefox 1.5 or above (Stylish is a Firefox add-on!)
- Stylish (A Firefox add-on which allows you to change the way websites and even the browser itself appears! Purely techy stuff to write your own styles, but there are pre-made styles available online.)
Once you have Stylish installed, Firefox will have a pen and notebook icon visible in the statusbar. Right click it and choose “Write style > Blank style”. Then copy and paste the full text of my style into the main text box. Then you can give it a name in the textbox on top. Click Preview to see how it will look (remember to open about:blank or you won’t see it) and Save to permanently add it to your installed styles.
I think there’s a way I can make a link to have it install automagically, but the main website for styles, userstyles.org, is down at the moment so I can’t see how they do it. Can’t add my style there either. 
Update: Some comments have said that this affects JavaScript generated content, which I noticed after using it for a bit. This is easy to fix with some clever tweaking (a CSSrule to only apply the styling if the body element is empty… since any practical use of JavaScript generated content requires there to be, well, CONTENT, I found this fixes the problem nicely. You can download the fixed version above.
31 responses so far ↓
1 Stathis // May 17, 2007 at 10:09 am
Cool.
2 Firefox + Stylish = 10 Extremely Beautiful Websites // Jun 5, 2007 at 8:16 am
[...] http://blog.mzzt.net/2007/04/10/aboutblank/ [...]
3 proxieslist.net // Jun 5, 2007 at 8:21 am
[...] http://blog.mzzt.net/2007/04/10/aboutblank/ [...]
4 Firefox + Stylish = 10 个非常漂亮的网站 - Nicky's blog // Jun 5, 2007 at 9:10 am
[...] 7、Light Firefox about:blank http://blog.mzzt.net/2007/04/10/aboutblank/ [...]
5 Firefox + Stylish = 10 Extremely Beautiful Websites | Tekjuice.com // Jun 6, 2007 at 9:53 am
[...] http://blog.mzzt.net/2007/04/10/aboutblank/ [...]
6 Constandinos // Jun 6, 2007 at 10:56 am
Nice
7 s427 // Jun 6, 2007 at 2:29 pm
Very nice. Unfortunately, it seems to affect other pages as well, and in some cases, to cause bugs in them. For me it was the case in Google Notebook : when editing notes, the FF logo appeared in the background of the bottom of the note, and some parts of the text became invisible or inaccessible. I changed the margin rule to “margin: 0″, but it didn’t quite solve the problem, so I had to disable this style in Stylish.
8 Yiannis // Jun 10, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Nice
9 Aleksiu // Jun 12, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Nice…
10 Leo // Jun 13, 2007 at 3:35 am
Cool.
11 Pantelis // Jun 14, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Nice…
12 Hristos // Jun 14, 2007 at 7:43 pm
Nice!
13 Kostantinos // Jun 17, 2007 at 2:55 am
Interesting…
14 469302ed4a // Jul 10, 2007 at 11:34 am
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15 Firefox + Stylish = 10 个非常漂亮的网站 - 花花网志 // Jul 17, 2007 at 8:52 pm
[...] 7、Light Firefox about:blank http://blog.mzzt.net/2007/04/10/aboutblank/ [...]
16 Kyriakos // Aug 7, 2007 at 2:38 am
Cool!
17 Thanos // Aug 23, 2007 at 5:12 am
Nice!
18 dep // Aug 27, 2007 at 9:29 am
love it dude, thanks.
19 Sotiris // Sep 1, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Interesting…
20 Spice Up that Boring about:blank Page in Firefox :: the How-To Geek // Sep 6, 2007 at 1:33 am
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21 Firefox + Stylish = 10 个非常漂亮的网站 « 致力于全球点击率最低的博客 // Sep 13, 2007 at 8:06 pm
[...] 7、Light Firefox about:blank http://blog.mzzt.net/2007/04/10/aboutblank/ [...]
22 Tune Up Your Firefox about:blank Page » Web Browsers News and Reviews // Sep 16, 2007 at 4:24 am
[...] Download. [...]
23 Firefox的10个非常漂亮的网站尽现 | Nipao.博客 // Sep 19, 2007 at 11:07 pm
[...] 7、Light Firefox about:blank [...]
24 10 Extremely Beautiful Websites | Firefox.hk // Oct 22, 2007 at 9:22 pm
[...] http://blog.mzzt.net/2007/04/10/aboutblank/ [...]
25 Kristion // Nov 18, 2007 at 1:49 pm
interesting
26 Savvas // Nov 19, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Cool.
27 Idetrorce // Dec 15, 2007 at 11:44 am
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
28 Andros // Jan 3, 2008 at 3:14 am
Cool.
29 Theodoros // Feb 2, 2008 at 2:33 am
Sorry
30 Daniel Ritchie // Mar 13, 2008 at 8:07 am
Nop, sry.
http://www.honestlyillustrated.com/userstyles/stylishguide/stylishguide.html#about:blank
31 Firefox + Stylish = 10 Extremely Beautiful Websites « Numb3rs // Apr 22, 2008 at 11:18 pm
[...] http://blog.mzzt.net/2007/04/10/aboutblank/ [...]
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