[arch-general] FF Browser Tip for Archers who like a darker desktop (DR, you listening?)

[Sergey Manucharian]

Excerpts from Philipp Überbacher's message of Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:36
+0200:

> Excerpts from David C. Rankin's message of 2010-08-16 00:03:59 +0200:
> > Guys,
> > 
> >     Here is a quick browser tip for firefox. About a year ago I
> > stumbled across 'NightShift - Eyecare' that did a fantastic job at
> > basically inverting the way firefox rendered pages darkening the
> > display and providing immediate relief to tired eyes:
> > 
> > NightShift - Eyecare (good title)
> > http://userstyles.org/styles/18192
> > 
> >     It's not for all pages, but when you need to read a page or two
> > of text and you don't want to stare into a bright display, it is
> > worth its weight in gold.
> > 
> >     Last night, I had to rebuild my firefox install (moving
> > ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla-sav and starting new). Looking for nightshift
> > again (not remembering what it was called and searing 'night' on
> > userstyles.org, I stumbled across 'Midnight Surfing' and gave it a
> > try. Wow, it worked better in some circumstances. That was cool, so
> > I thought I would pass it along to the list:
> > 
> > Midnight Surfing
> > http://userstyles.org/styles/23516
> > 
> >     It can be a great tool to stick in your toolbox for the right
> > circumstance and since stylish integrates nicely with FF providing
> > the little status bar on/off dialog for the styles, you can flip it
> > on/off with no effort at all.
> > 
> >     Install stylish before going to userstyles.org and you can then
> > just load the styles into firefox. Get stylish at the mozilla
> > addons site:
> > 
> > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/downloads/latest/2108/addon-2108-latest.xpi?src=search
> > 
> > Enjoy!
> 
> Wow, nice stuff. I was already thinking about using some custom css
> for all pages at night, but this seems to work better.
> 
> However, I'm known as bug creator, and so I found a rather severe one
> immediately. It doesn't work with local html files at all.
> 
> Thanks,

Indeed nice stuff, but...
Stylish is supposed to work with Chrome, and I tried it with
Chromium 5.0.375.99 - an error message "unable to open a transaction to
the database" keeps popping up...

Cheers,
Sergey