Put this in your userContent.css file and reload Mozilla. (Works with Netscape too.)
div.page[style=“width: 760px; text-align: left;”] { width: auto ! important; }
There’s a slight chance this will affect layout on other sites, but I tried to make the selector as restrictive as possible. I always wanted to customize certain pages like this, but I never got around to it. I figured this was a good time to start. 
I tried that but it didn’t do anything. I don’t actually have a usercontent.css though, just the example one. Any thoughts?
You have to put it in a file called userContent.css in your profile’s chrome directory. This directory should already have a file called userContent-example.css. It took me a while to find mine. Here’s where I eventually found it:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\ah0e9fbz.slt\chrome
I suggest you search your computer for directories called “chrome”.
I did that, sorry, I should have been more clear. I made a blank file, called it userContent.css and put what you did in and it didn’t do anything.
Oh! Did you reload Mozilla? I don’t mean reload the page, I mean close the program and start it up again?
Works for me…many thanks!
I did reload Mozilla – my chrome directory seems to be in C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\defaults\profile\US\chrome … sound ok? 
Aha, no that’s not right. That’s the default profile directory. When you create a new profile, files get copied from that directory to start a new one. Your profile directory will be somewhere else.
I don’t actually have any profiles but the default one on here – on of the advantages to being the only person to use this computer :).
Works for me as well (using Firebird 0.6). What OS do you have, Silentgoldfish? That would help us tell where your user settings are. In Win9x, I believe it is something like C:\windows\application settings…
Ah hah! I found out what I was doing wrong!
It wound up being in almost exactly the same place in Achenar’s. I got confused because there’s two almost identical directories.
The wider forum looks a lot better. Ta!
Oh, it worked it worked it worked! Thank you! That narrow format was driving me nuts.
Woohoo, it worked! Using Mozilla 1.5 on Windows 2000 here. Thanks.
What would be really nice is if the boards included some of the other styles that come with vBulletin that expand to full screen width. 
Yeah, this is just temporary. When they’re done making modifications, the line I posted probably won’t work anymore.
Just wanted to say that it works with Firebird 0.7 on Windows XP also. The only difference is that you need to place the userContent.css in: C:\Documents and Settings*<username>\Application Data\Phoenix\Profiles\default*<xxxxx>.slt\chrome.
I’m using Firebird 7.0. I have no idea where I put that line, but it worked. That sure made a big difference.
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All it did for me was eliminate the background. The width stayed the same.
I’ve been messing around some more. Nothing as useful as widening the tables, but some kind of fun things. This line makes usernames appear normal size in threads instead of 14pt:
td.alt1 > table a[style=“font-size: 14pt;”] { font-size: inherit ! important; }
And these lines replace the vBulletin logo with a little box that says “STRAIGHT DOPE MESSAGE BOARD”:
img[alt=“Straight Dope Message Board”] { width: 0; height: 0; }
img[alt=“Straight Dope Message Board”]:after {
background: blue; color: yellow; font-weight: bold; font-size: 8pt; text-decoration: none;
content: attr(alt); padding: 0.2em; text-transform: uppercase; }
And there are ways to keep things you want to get rid of from displaying, but I don’t need to go into too many details there. Anyway, this was mostly just an exercise, but I wanted to let people know that there’s plenty of potential for customization.
AAAAAaaarggghhh!!
No success whatsoever.
Could someone please post a step-by-step instructional guide to performing this task. You know, one of those “Idiot’s Guide to…” format. I am having no luck at all.