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| ==== Customising Your ISTC Search Screen - Please Change Add-On! ==== | ==== Customising Your ISTC Search Screen - Please Change Add-On! ==== |
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| Back in the December Newsletter 2017, we described a simple solution to make change to the way the the ISTC ist displayed in the browser: "Customising your ISTC search screen", as some users feels that the decorating image is rather large on on smaller screens. Alas, of the available options we recommended the widely used Add-On "Stylish" that now has shown to be a security risk. The Add-On started to access the browser history when it changed to a new owner and new developer. The "Stylish" Add-On is no longer available. | In the December Newsletter 2017, we described a simple solution to change the way the ISTC is displayed in the browser: "Customising your ISTC search screen". This allows users of smaller screens to not display the banner at the top of the screen and leave more room for the search box and search results. |
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| Therefore, please **deactivate** the Add-On if you are using it, and **switch** to the safe **"Stylus"** Add-On. It works exactly the same, but does not carry any security risk. "Stylus" ist availabe for Firefox and Chrome. | We recommended the widely used Add-On "Stylish" but this has recently been shown to be a [[https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/05/browsers_pull_stylish_but_invasive_browser_extension/|security risk]]. The Add-On started to access the browser history when it changed to a new owner and new developer. The "Stylish" Add-On is no longer available. |
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| | Therefore, please **deactivate** the Add-On if you are using it, and **switch** to the safe **"Stylus"** Add-On. It works exactly the same, but does not carry any security risk. "Stylus" ist availabe for Firefox and Chrome. This Add-On can be used for all CERL database available through data.cerl.org. |
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| [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/|Stylus for Firefox]] / [[https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpeebahjckkjfobafhncgmne|Stylus for Chrome]] | [[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/|Stylus for Firefox]] / [[https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpeebahjckkjfobafhncgmne|Stylus for Chrome]] |
hosting/news.txt · Last modified: 2018/07/12 11:40 by lefferts
