As a Firefox user, one of the extensions that I can’t live without is Userstyles. They allow me to remove tons of ads and format some webpages that I use in my daily life in the way I want.
A few months ago I started using IE8 as my main browser in my personal laptop. And very happy about it because it’s lighter than Firefox, and I don’t really need all the extensions outside work. But I missed Userstyles…
After searching for a while I found information about custom cascade style sheets in IE in a Microsoft article.
By following this step-by-step tutorial, you can set a custom css file for your browser. The changes are applied after browser restart, and it’s somewhat limited when compared with userstyles, since you can’t turn on/off setting on the fly and the css rules are global, which means that you change a class properties for a website, and you happen to navigate to another one that uses the same class, the css rules will also be applied.
Nevertheless, now I was able to remove ads from Windows Live Hotmail in IE8, remove the search bar that I don’t use and so on.
Great.
Now try removing the shameless Microsoft propaganda on the footer of every email you send.