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Boards.ie Cleaner ~ V2 nocode | Chromium & Firefox extension. | not official.
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11-04-2026 05:31PM#1
Boards.ie helper that cleans up layout, smooths the overlay, and adds handy tools and shortcuts for easier browsing on desktop and Firefox for Android.
I have stripped out some features from Paid Members version (ad blocking and hiding of site alerts).
Nocode:- Means there is no activation code in this version, mobile icon to trigger delay and overlay message edits.
The store listing have been updated with this version, members version still available as manual install.
Here is the links to the stores:-
Chrome webstore should probably be available here ~ Edit now available.
Manual Install
For chrome desktop unpack the zip and point 'Load unpack' in chrome at the folder.
For Mobile Quetta/Firefox nightly just change the filename to .xpi and point your installers to that file.
As i can now test mobile extensions on Firefox Nightly, I may build on the extension and add theming for different forums as suggested below, If people are interested.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~ George Santayana
"But that's balanced out by the fact that it's a mandate not to do very much." ~ Prof. Eoin O'MalleyPost edited by corkie on0
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Still very much a work in progress.
I went down a development path of trying to create a paid members section in the extension, but hit a brick wall when what I was trying to do was not feasible due to limits of extensions.
Theme for it so far have two options and to 2 specific forums, next development is creating a set of preselect that could be applied to forums of your choosing.
The two themes below:-
- After Hours
- Current Affairs
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~ George Santayana
"But that's balanced out by the fact that it's a mandate not to do very much." ~ Prof. Eoin O'Malley0 -
Made some improvements and rewrites of the extension.
The '🍪' icon now used to set overlay message and delay across mobile and desktop.
Clean up some code and changed from local storage to sync storage for settings etc.
Hardcode theme is removed. Check options in the extension menu to apply two in built themes above.
No new themes as preselect generated yet.
Decided to focus, on getting Subbed Members enable again on this version, through an alternative activation system.
More details in there soon.
^ Change the .zip to .xpi for install on Firefox.
Mainly tested on Chromium Browsers and briefly on mobile.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~ George Santayana
"But that's balanced out by the fact that it's a mandate not to do very much." ~ Prof. Eoin O'Malley0 -
Note: WIP means work in progress and I am just sharing experimental builds as I continue to tweak and add features to the extension!
As I have expanded from the simple content.js script I can include more features. Some dev paths I try don't bear fruition and I don't share here.
Some recent developments include: -
- Global colour shift system ~ On by default, but can easily be switch. | Main purpose is to show the extension is active.
- Icons for extension added
- Toast / popup improvements ~ Notification triggered by the extension are more identifiable.
- Paid Member (or admin, moderator and owner) ~ Added to membership role detection for on going addition to them features.
- Possibly more as well ~ Due to abandoned paths taken, not sure of features left in due to roll backs to working code.
Extension mainly tested on chromium browsers, mobile Firefox needs some bug fixes (Nightly or Dev on desktop).
Theme engine development stalled at present, needs to be refactored to a more easier system, current is mainly a manual edit of templates and install by the user. Plus dreading the switch to Vanilla which means it may need tweaking to work on that system.
ZIP/XPI For Manual Install: -
Edit: - 22:07 New files updated below, targeted only desktop with colour shift which had a conflicting effect on mobile.
^ Different packages with different manifest for each to eliminated error reporting in chrome.
^ Change the .zip to .xpi for install on Firefox.Disclaimer: - My Extension is not official and not sanctioned by boards.ie.
Post edited by corkie on"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~ George Santayana
"But that's balanced out by the fact that it's a mandate not to do very much." ~ Prof. Eoin O'Malley0 -
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Okay! Had a quiet and undistracted few hours today, to which I got around to refactor my theme engine of my extension.
I thought the process would be more difficult but achieved a good bit with it today.The engine now has 3 Pre set options that can be applied to any forum of your choosing. Plus a sample file that can be edited and pasted into the custom css field in the options menu (see templates folder). Theme names where inspired by the forums I was targeting.
Also yesterday I managed to target placeholder divs and layers margin sizes to reduce empty spaces from non displayed areas form adblockers, membership etc.
Also hid the very top nav bar, that you could only use from the top of the page. Now has a new smaller hamburger toggle near your profile. To click them items. accessible any where on the page as the bar is sticky?
Haven't tested completely across browsers. There is still things to clean-up in the main content.js like hardcode button colours from my extension. Some console logs have to be removed as well. So a good bit of work to do before I submit this to the stores.DIST
^ Different packages with different manifest for each to eliminated error reporting in chrome.
^ Change the .zip to .xpi for install on Firefox.Disclaimer: - My Extension is not official and not sanctioned by boards.ie.
Note: - It is a thing, that themes should have been a bonus feature of membership, so people don't need a third party extension.
The features of the extension does things that other widely available extensions also can do? @Boards.ie: Odhran @Boards.ie: Mike@circadian Hope you find this updated version to your liking with the themes been applied to any forum of choosing?
@smuggler.ie Was able to solve some of the spacing issues you called out on here?
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All though I didn't target mobile browsers with the themes, they also work there. Easy method to get them on mobile, is to set themes on desktop, export them and import again on mobile. Example file you could import to get started.
^^ Just scan the file to see I am not hacking your browser, remove '.txt' and import to have the theme engine setup with: -
[Example only, I have patched things since for hardcoded colours and declarations.]- after-hours — preset: afterhours-dark
- current-affairs-imho — preset: current-affairs-imho
- forestry — preset: forest
- humour — preset: none, custom CSS « Paper Theme | Sample included in zip.
- television-general — preset: none, custom CSS « Sepia Theme
^ Sepia theme not included in zip yet, but here it is so you can use the custom css field to apply it to forum of your choosing.
Below is the patched version of it.If this gains traction user's (or community) could share themes they create themselves or get AI to create?
For AI, give the above as an example and prompt the AI like this:- Base on this sepia theme, please create an orange based one with a dark background?
Post edited by corkie on"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~ George Santayana
"But that's balanced out by the fact that it's a mandate not to do very much." ~ Prof. Eoin O'Malley1 - after-hours — preset: afterhours-dark
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Submitted to the stores and posted on my repo as well now!
«@circadianWill PM a repo link.« Awaiting for review look for version 2.0.5 with above icon!
« Already live.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~ George Santayana
"But that's balanced out by the fact that it's a mandate not to do very much." ~ Prof. Eoin O'Malley1 -
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A store release today with many of the developments discussed above. Inclusive of GitHub WIP builds.
« Look for v 2.0.6 « available.
« Already available.
Manual Install v 2.0.6: - Chrome: zip | Firefox: .xpi or .zip
Source: - See my GitHub repo
^^ Bookmark system for styled forums: If you don't select a pre set and leave custom css blank, it just becomes a bookmark that will override the default colour swap of the extension (if enabled).
Post edited by corkie on"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~ George Santayana
"But that's balanced out by the fact that it's a mandate not to do very much." ~ Prof. Eoin O'Malley0 -
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A reddit post led me down a path of experimenting with fonts.
My theme engine can already handle assigning different fonts to specific forums if needed (without any changes to the extension scripts).
Just use the custom css field and append/or add to the style the below code: -
/* Global font override, but avoid common icon/text-special cases /
html body :not(code):not(pre):not(kbd):not(samp)
:not([class="fa-"]):not(.fa):not(.fas):not(.far):not(.fal):not(.fab)
:not([class*="material-icons"]):not(.material-icons):not(.material-symbols)
:not([class*="mdi-"]):not(.mdi)
:not([class*="icon-"]):not(.icon)
:not([role="img"]) {
font-family: "Britannic", Georgia, serif !important;
}/* Restore common icon fonts on pseudo-elements */
html ::before,
html ::after {
font-family:
"Font Awesome 6 Free",
"Font Awesome 5 Free",
"Font Awesome 6 Brands",
"Font Awesome 5 Brands",
FontAwesome,
"Material Icons",
"Material Symbols",
"Material-Design-Iconic-Font",
icomoon,
Flaticon,
icons,
sans-serif !important;
}"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." ~ George Santayana
"But that's balanced out by the fact that it's a mandate not to do very much." ~ Prof. Eoin O'Malley0
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