It’s kind of sad, but sometimes open source projects slow way down. It happend to Thunderbird (I switched to Leopard Mail, which came out around the same time that TB’s primary architects left the project), and now it appears to have happened to my favorite newsreader: Gregarius.
Offline reading has always made Google Reader awfully attractive, but the one Gregarius feature I couldn’t live without was a slider to shorten posts to a consistent length. This made it easy to skim the beginning of an article without too much scrolling.
Thus, we have my first UserStyle: Googe Reader Shrink Expanded View
If you haven’t been turned on to user styles in Firefox yet, download the Stylish add-on and check out this Lifehacker post filled with useful styles.