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UPDATE: MacRumors Minimal has been completely redesigned from the ground up. I believe that the new design is vastly cleaner and — more importantly — much more readable. I hope you enjoy the redesign as much as I do!
Cleans up and gives the display of macrumors.com a minimalist feel. And more importantly, it drastically reduces the page load time.
| Ver. 2.0.1 | [FIX] Changed domain permissions on the Chrome version to HTTPS because Macrumors switched over to secure. (April 14th, 2017) |
| Ver. 2.0.0 | Completely redesigned from the ground up. MacRumors is now much cleaner and more readable. (April 17th, 2015) |
| Ver. 1.7.1 | ANNOUNCEMENT: As of June 26, 2014, the Chrome version of this extension is hosted on the Google Chrome store. The download link above will take you to the Chrome store. (June 25th, 2014) |
| Ver. 1.7.1 | Updated Chrome version to match Safari version (1.7.1) (February 18th, 2014) |
| Ver. 1.7.1 | Removed gray border from articles (September 20th, 2013) |
| Ver. 1.7 | Addressed an issue brought up by Nick and Craig Gordon where a new advert was blocking the top of the page. (January 18th, 2013) |
| Ver. 1.6 | Fixed a styling issue where the Title was white (invisible) on an individual post's page (June 8th, 2011) |
| Ver. 1.5 | MAJOR UPDATE: MacRumorsMinimal now works with the new redesign! Yay! (May 16th, 2011) |
| Ver. 1.4 | Added support for macrumorslive.com (October 20th, 2010) |
| Ver. 1.3 | Styled the countdown clock, removing it from the content area and moving it to the top of the page. (October 19th, 2010) |
| Ver. 1.2 | Minor updates (October 5th, 2010) |
| Ver. 1.1 | Minor updates (October 3rd, 2010) |
58 User CommentsPost a Comment »
1
Julian
October 4th, 2010
15:09 pm
Total awesomeness!
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Chris Herbert
October 6th, 2010
08:55 am
This is a great little Safari extension but there is one issue, shouldn't the ads stay on the redesigned page? This is what helps pay the bills for the site. There's no business model now.
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Cornell Campbell
October 6th, 2010
09:35 am
@Chris Herbert - I definitely understand what you're saying, but the whole point of the extension was to speed up the site. The ads were adding greatly to the load time. And to be honest, if the administrator of Mac Rumors would speed up the load time and clean up the site a little, I wouldn't need an extension. But, perhaps I will add a "Show Ads" option in the future. Thanks for your input, though!
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Aaron Vince
October 6th, 2010
09:41 am
Thank you so much for this. It's awesome and I was waiting eagerly for it.
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Milind Alvares
October 6th, 2010
13:11 pm
Agreed with Herbert. Advertising is an important aspect of any site. If you don’t like the ads, don’t visit. I’m quite surprised your plugin doesn’t even load the ads, etc. Most other plugins are just a CSS rewrite, but this seems to change the structure. Great plugin. Hope to see more of these.
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Cornell Campbell
October 6th, 2010
13:35 pm
@Milind - Wouldn't it be the same for me to say, if you don't like that I'm hiding ads, then don't use the extension? I do appreciate your comments though, and I do understand the importance of ads. As to why I don't even load the ads - once again, the purpose of this extension was to speed up load times. The ads significantly added to the load time. I'm glad you like it though. And if the ads weren't so heavy, I would just load them, like I do in my IMDb extension.
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Myst Exodus
October 8th, 2010
06:34 am
Awesome! Looks sexy as shit, you should try and tackle Facebook next. ;) Great work! Keep it up. ^^
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Cornell Campbell
October 8th, 2010
07:26 am
@Myst - Haha. I might just have to do that.
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Seb
October 10th, 2010
10:33 am
Hi there, how right you were about that twitter plugin! I was astonished that after having blocked the twittme (or similar) domain, not only macrumors started to load in an instant. Now with your extension one can see most central information. Thanks.
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Michael
October 12th, 2010
16:11 pm
I really love your extensions, but could you, please, add an option to turn off the CSS font smoothing.
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Julian
October 19th, 2010
01:12 am
Uh, you didn't hold the 'countdown to event' in account :P http://grab.by/grabs/9da412353a03aea995ab79ee7668f192.png (just a screenshot, nothing weird..; or just visit MacRumors to see it for yourself)
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Cornell Campbell
October 19th, 2010
08:48 am
@Julian - Fixed.
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Julian
October 20th, 2010
00:44 am
Looks great! And that was really fast!
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Johnnie
November 1st, 2010
05:01 am
Great extension, awesome look! Macrumors is one of my favorite sites but totally failed to keep up with the times... Now if only you could find time to adapt the extension to also tweak the forums (http://forums.macrumors.com/), that would make my life perfect :-)
15
Shaun_R
November 13th, 2010
02:28 am
Is there a chance any of these awesome mods will ever be ported to Google Chrome? I am a recent switcher to Chrome from safari, and really miss these. Thanks!
16
Dennis
November 17th, 2010
12:24 pm
This looks so good!!!! Can you make something for gmail, google, facebook or youtube? :) plz!!!!
17
Jules
December 18th, 2010
06:13 am
...or a Google Minimal
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zero credibility
February 1st, 2011
10:10 am
YES ! please make one for igoogle ! .. that would be amazing ...
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John
March 4th, 2011
11:56 am
Holy crap, this is awesome. I didn't even know I wanted this--saw it on the extensions page. And wow, great work, sir.
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Cornell Campbell
March 5th, 2011
09:43 am
Thanks John!
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Joonas
March 9th, 2011
13:52 pm
Please publish this as greasemonkey script or Chrome extension?
22
Peter
April 4th, 2011
02:04 am
Nice work, only it removes youtube movies from the news. Can you fix that please. Keep up the good work!
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thom
May 12th, 2011
08:11 am
Will you be releasing an update due to the MacRumors redesign? I really hope you will.
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mattbisme
May 12th, 2011
08:14 am
Agreed! Please update the plugin for the redesign!
25
Cornell Campbell
May 12th, 2011
08:34 am
Hey guys, I just saw the redesign! I will do my best to update the extension in the next week or so.
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Jason
May 13th, 2011
20:04 pm
how 'bout one that makes it look like the old macrumors?
27
Binotto
May 15th, 2011
10:10 am
Please update this extension. I hate MacRumors without it and will not use the site. Thanks.
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Akira
May 17th, 2011
15:39 pm
Many thanks for the quick update! It's wonderful and clean to read again!
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Binotto
May 22nd, 2011
22:18 pm
Thank you so much! MacRumors is crap (looks wise) without your extension.
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Randy Harris
June 7th, 2011
09:52 am
The 1.5 redesign works fine on the main page, but if you click on a story and it goes to a page of just that story the subject line is white font on a white background - invisible. Thanks for all the great work.
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Sardonick
August 4th, 2011
01:02 am
Love it. The main reason I love it is because it wipes the stupid ads. Very clean, very nice.
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Cornell Campbell
August 4th, 2011
09:32 am
@Sardonick - Thanks!
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Craig Gordon
January 8th, 2013
11:57 am
FYI, the banner ads for MacRumors Minimal are misplaced.
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Nick
January 18th, 2013
11:34 am
As Craig mentioned, the banner at the top now blocks the first story.
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Cornell Campbell
January 18th, 2013
17:07 pm
@Craig and @Nick - Fixed. Thank you very much for bringing that to my attention.
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Nick
January 22nd, 2013
08:35 am
@Cornell - Thanks so much!
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Sam Doohickey
August 2nd, 2013
09:51 am
My version (1.7) has a grey stroke with zero padding around each article. Is there a way to remove this? The previous version I used didn't have this. Otherwise, brilliant extension for one of my regular blogs.
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Sam Doohickey
October 4th, 2013
15:28 pm
Nice, 1.7.1 really looks great. Thanks for the update!
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Daniel
February 17th, 2014
13:49 pm
Is it just me or did macrumors.com break this extension today?
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Coke
February 17th, 2014
21:38 pm
No Daniel, it is not just you! With the MacRumors Minimal Extension enabled, MacRumors won't load. I just get a blank page.
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EG
February 17th, 2014
22:02 pm
Broken here too. Turning it off, obviously fixes the problem.
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Cornell Campbell
February 17th, 2014
23:43 pm
I'm working on the issue that Daniel, Coke, and EG mentioned, but I'm not able to replicate it in either Safari or Chrome. If anybody else is having this issue, please let me know what browser / browser version you're using, and also what version of the extension you're on. It wouldn't hurt to let me know what OS and OS version you're using. Thanks!
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Daniel
February 18th, 2014
08:19 am
UPDATE! I tried turning back on the MacRumors Minimal 1.7.1 extension in Safari 7.0.1 this morning (the same versions as yesterday when it appeared broken) and now everything works as it should! Hopefully Coke and EG will have a similar experience. Must have been some fluke of the content on macrumors.com at the time we had issues or something.
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Aichon
June 26th, 2014
11:55 am
So, Chrome no longer allows extensions that aren't from the Chrome Web Store. Any chance it might be released there or in an alternative format (e.g. userscript)?
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Cornell Campbell
June 26th, 2014
14:22 pm
@Aichon - The Chrome version of this extension is now available via the Chrome store. You can click the download button above to take you straight to the extension in the store.
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Jur Kuipers
September 22nd, 2014
16:23 pm
MacRumoursMinimal is broken with Safari 7.1 (?)
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Mitchel
September 23rd, 2014
12:04 pm
Needs an update isn't working properly !
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Edge
September 26th, 2014
10:34 am
I am having the problem too. Feel free to email me and I'll send you screen shots. It is worst when running Ad Block, so you might test it with and without Ad Block turned on. With Ad Block off, the minimal format loads, but then disappears on Safari Version 7.0.6 (9537.78.2). With Ad Block on, but Minimal turned off, MacRumors loads fine. With Ad Block on and Minimal turned on, nothing loads. With Ad Block off, and minimal on, MacRumors loads, then vanishes. This seems to me to be mostly a problem with Minimal, but wanted to provide a bit more information to.
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Daniel Peter
September 29th, 2014
10:49 am
Hmmm. An update would be fine. Can't wait! Thanks!
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coke
February 23rd, 2015
10:35 am
So Mac users shouldn't expect an update? I hadn't realized why I couldn't load MacRumors any more. Now I know it the MacRumors Minimal Extension.
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Jur Kuipers
April 17th, 2015
14:06 pm
@Cornell Campbell - You fixed MacRumors Minimal! I downloaded the fixed/updated extension and it's working like it should. http://cornellcampbell.com/extensions/posts/2/macrumors-minimal/ (for download) Thanks for your e-mail to bring this to my attention. Much appreciated!
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Aichon
April 29th, 2015
13:18 pm
Just wanted to stop in to say thanks. I love having the MRM extension working again, and I love the new look you came up with. Awesome work.
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Mater Henri
June 17th, 2015
14:19 pm
Yah, back in biddness!
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Cornell Campbell
June 17th, 2015
14:58 pm
@Aichon and @Mater Henri, thanks, glad you like it!
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Aichon
February 13th, 2017
09:26 am
The Chrome version (2.0.0) seems to have stopped working in the last few weeks on Windows. I've tried disabling all other extensions, but still no luck. To say the least, I really miss seeing MacRumors as it was meant to be seen.
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Commandor
September 18th, 2018
01:26 am
This extension is no longer acceptable in Safari 12. Will you consider to update it? Thanks a lot.
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Aichon
September 25th, 2018
09:54 am
Commandor, there's a trick to get legacy extensions like this working again, at least on a temporary basis. I described it over at my own site with regards to my own extension (http://aichon.com/dumpbox/extensions/), but it applies to MacRumors Minimal equally as well That said, before you can do the steps I linked to, you'll need to do these ones first: 1) After downloading MacRumors Minimal, change the filename from "MacRumorsMinimal-2.0.1.safariextz" to "MacRumorsMinimal-2.0.1.safariextz.xar" (note the ".xar" added to the end). A .xar file is more or less like a .zip file, just for reference. 2) Double-click the .xar file to open it. This should create a folder named "MacRumorsMinimal-2.0.1.safariextz". You can delete the .xar file since you won't need it any more. 3) Inside the newly created folder, you'll find a folder named "MacRumorsMinimal.safariextension". 4) At that point, you can start at step 3 in the steps I linked to.
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t
April 15th, 2020
18:57 pm
Gutted MacRumors Minimal, no longer works on Chrome 80.0.3. MacOS 10.15.4 Would donate to get back up and running :–)