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^{NOTE: SOUP is compatible with Firefox 57 / Greasemonkey 4. However, due to a known bug, installing SOUP (or any other user scripts) from GitHub may fail. Until the bug is fixed (and until GM4 stabilizes more generally) I recommend using another user script manager (such as Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey) or the stand-alone SOUP extension for Firefox instead.}

^{NOTE 2: Tampermonkey on Chrome suffers from a race condition that can cause some fixes that rely on early loading to fail to apply properly. To avoid this, you should either use the stand-alone SOUP Chrome extension or set Inject Mode to "Instant" in Tampermonkey preferences (in the Experimental section, only visible when Config Mode is set to "Advanced" above). Other user script managers on Chrome may also be subject to similar issues.}

^{NOTE: Tampermonkey on Chrome may suffer from a race condition that can cause some fixes that rely on early loading to fail to apply properly. To avoid this, you should either use the stand-alone SOUP Chrome extension or set Inject Mode to "Instant" in Tampermonkey preferences (in the Experimental section, only visible when Config Mode is set to "Advanced" above). Other user script managers on Chrome may also be subject to similar issues.}

• SE Modifications — Username autocomplete in comments, inline revision source, and utility links
• SE Chat Modifications — Keyboard navigation and commands for chat
• Official keyboard shortcuts
• SE Additional Optional Features
• ...and other popular user scripts on Stack Apps

• SE Chat Modifications — Keyboard navigation and commands for chat
• Stack Overflow Extras (SOX)
• ...and other popular user scripts on Stack Apps

The Stack Overflow Unofficial Patch (SOUP) is a project to collect various minor client-side bug fixes, work-arounds and usability improvements for Stack Overflow and other Q&A sites on the Stack Exchange Network into a single user script.

(An Opera extension may be available at a later date. In the mean time, Opera users may use the Chrome extension via Download Chrome Extension, or just use the user script version with e.g. Tampermonkey for Opera.)

Download / Install SOUP

^{View source / GitHub repo / Stack Apps post}

^{NOTE: SOUP is compatible with Firefox 57 / Greasemonkey 4. However, due to a known bug, installing SOUP (or any other user scripts) from GitHub may fail. Until the bug is fixed (and until GM4 stabilizes more generally) I recommend using another user script manager (such as Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey) or the stand-alone version of SOUP instead.}

^{NOTE 2: Tampermonkey on Chrome suffers from a race condition that can cause some fixes that rely on early loading to fail to apply properly. To avoid this, you should either use the stand-alone SOUP Chrome extension or set Inject Mode to "Instant" in Tampermonkey preferences (in the Experimental section, only visible when Config Mode is set to "Advanced" above). Other user script managers on Chrome may also be subject to similar issues.}

Download / Install SOUP (development branch)

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SOUP v1.50 (development) includes fixes or workarounds for the following issues.

The fixes highlighted in boldface include particularly major interface improvements or fix particularly severe or widespread issues. The choice of which fixes to highlight is unavoidably somewhat subjective, but in my personal opinion, these are the fixes you should actually install SOUP for — the rest are just icing on the cake.

CSS-only fixes

These are pure CSS fixes. They will be applied even if JavaScript is disabled on the site. Most of these are fairly minor, but sometimes pervasive, issues.

• mse215473: Add a non-breaking space to “reopen (1)” and its ilk
• mse114109: Background in OP's user name can obscure text in multiline comments
• mse145819: <hr/>'s do not get rendered in deleted answers
• mse108046: Mouse cursor doesn't change to pointer when hovering “full site” on mobile
• mse110566: Does the spoiler markdown work on images?
• mse58760: <kbd> (yes, still <kbd>) doesn't play nice with lists
• mse203405: Excerpt of privilege is below privilege instead of in front
• mse154788: Why are comments overlapping the sidebar?
• mse214830: Selecting text in profile activity comments causes unexpected clipping
• mse230392: Layout bug while viewing vote count in Meta Stackexchange
• physics5773: Bounty icon is poorly placed
• mse224185: Links sometimes float above text in vote-to-close dialog on Firefox
• mse233517: Badge symbol in notification is of the site you're on, not where badge was earned
• mse169225: Why does the bounty award button appear on deleted answers?
• mse84296: RTL text can mess up comment timestamps
• mse249859: <kbd> tags in headings are too small
• mse248156: What's the purpose of the tagline in the Bounties section of the profile?
• mso284049: Small bugs in the Stack Overflow editor
• mse250081: Retract close vote UI
• mso287222: Clicking between lines fails
• mso297678: Comment anchor links get “visited” highlighting
• mse242944: Long display name with no spaces breaks design of review history pages
• mse266258: Left side markdown diff outside of its area
• mso342634: “Hot Meta Posts” with a 4-digit score wrap onto a second line
• mse186748: Duplicate dialog close button causes preview to be too narrow
• mse290496: Minor alignment issue in few of the Badge page's “Awarded to” text
• mse291623: Links that are italics and bold not showing as links in Mobile Web
• mse287196: Tick sign is not centered on single badge page
• mse302580: Printing an SE page in Firefox shows only the first page
• mse302569: Alignment improvement in the flag dialog
• mse304096: Comments and answers have huge right margins when printed
• mso306552: Votes cast has upvote-like symbol and is confusing
• mse304247: Attempting to use too long tag breaks popup
• mso360855: Margins are off/unbalanced in inbox

Site-specific CSS fixes

These pure CSS fixes are for issues specific to certain sites on the Stack Exchange network. Most of them are restricted to the affected site(s), but a few are applied globally, even though the issue they fix is only apparent on some sites.

• math12803: “Sign up for the newsletter” button overflows the frame on Firefox / Linux (partially applied globally)
• codegolf959: Add line-height shortener to the ascii-art tag
• math12902: Visited questions are practically indistinguishable in search results
• math16559: Typo in site CSS disables visited link color in community bulletin
• electronics3162: Error for profile less info
• electronics4038: About Me box on user page not in the right place (applied globally)
• mso286009: Change [Ask Question] button style
• mse250407: User signature cards on old revisions look funny (applied globally)
• cooking2049: Ads are cut off on the right
• movies1652: /users and profile pages (/users/…) space the link to the current profile (in the top bar) differently (also on workplace)
• graphicdesign2415: Design Bug: Tag alert CSS
• mse244587: “Top Network Users” should contain themselves!
• rpg5812: Post as a guest: CSS bug (applied globally)
• mse294574: Unbroken line in preview text causes whole post block to side scroll

Chat-only fixes

These fixes apply only to the Stack Exchange Network chat.

• mse155308: Ignoring somebody screws up the avatar list
• mse216760: The reply buttons in chat shouldn't reposition themselves on pinged messages
• mse222509: Getting Red Line under tags
• mse134268: U+0008 inserted into chat @-pings
• mse224233: Problem in css style loading in Search Bar after refresh page when using FF
• mso342361: Minor (funny) chat star bug for Hebrew text

General fixes

• mse217779: The CSS for spoilers is a mess. Let's fix it!
• mse78989: Clicking on tags broken?
• mse261721: Un-fade low-score answers on click/tap too
• mse66646: Confirming context menu entries via Enter triggers comment to be posted
• mse210132: New top bar should render avatar with a transparent background
• mse220337: Election comments have no permalink link
• mse224533: Soft-hyphen hides subsequent text when using Opera 12.16
• mse115702: Option to delete an answer only visible after a reload
• mse231150: Clicking the top bar sometimes loads the SE homepage, sometimes shows the site switcher
• mse234680: Domain names in an URL are incorrectly encoded as escaped ASCII characters instead of punycode
• mse266852: Bar between “add a comment” and “show more comments” is inconsistent
• mse239549: Mobile user profile page sort selectors stop working after first change
• mse240417: Should moderator diamonds be inside or outside the highlight box?
• mse243519: Dangling signature dash in comments
• mse220611: Blue background on nominee comments only when expanded
• mse121682: Links to election nominations don't work after nominations close
• mse230536: Large down-vote count doesn't display negative sign
• mse248646: Comments left by the author of a spam/offensive post should be deleted from the post too
• mso284223: Newly upvoted cool comments get an uncolored score
• mso295666: Disable annoying autofocus when clicking preview
• mse240787: Inconsistent reputation mouse-over text
• mso300679: Please block posts containing unsupported HTML
• mse266034: Link the title of the linked questions sidebar to the list of linked questions
• mse265889: Improve answer navigation for screen readers
• mse266523: Uploading an image from the web can leave paste broken in editor
• mse264307: Down arrow key won't work after using the Hyperlink button
• mse170970: Occasionally, the Unicode character sequence U+200C U+200B (ZWNJ ZWSP) is inserted into comments
• mse153528: Don't ask for a comment when downvoting, if the user just voted on a comment
• mse259325: Answer flashes orange when I click the “edit (1)” link to review a suggested edit
• mse268584: When a user is deleted, OP highlighting is lost
• mso310158: Right to left marker in comment shouldn't cause the rest of the line to change
• mse223737: Inbox heading should be a link
• mso313853: “Per page” pagination returns no results when increasing limit on last page
• mse74274: Privacy leak in permalink?
• mso338932: Touch laptop – “The snippet editor does not support touch devices.”
• mse287473: Tooltip banner blinking for question closed by the user with the golden badge in small screens
• mse135710: Please show changed titles separately in edit diffs
• mse223725: All internal links on Stack Exchange sites should be protocol-relative
• mse299086: HTTPS certificate error for meta redirect pages (meta.<site>.stackexchange.com)
• mse295065: Clicking “flags remaining” should link to a user's flag history page
• mso345590: The Stack Exchange menu is partly covered by the scrollbar when the window is too narrow
• mse213709: Allow flagging comments on mobile site
• mse303599: The “Flag” modal keeps going down
• mse90713: Show “this question has an active bounty and cannot be closed” earlier, when it applies
• mso358862: 5 seconds is too long, but if it must be, then give me a visual cue
• mse286345: Mobile search made impossible with keyboard shortcuts enabled

Site-specific fixes

These non-CSS fixes are applied only on specific SE sites. There's a lot fewer of these, since the SE JavaScript framework is shared between all sites, whereas CSS is different for each site. Thus, these fixes generally involve either rare site-specific customizations, or simply design fixes that cannot be implemented in pure CSS.

• boardgames1652: Switch Magic autocard over to a different search engine, Scryfall
• boardgames867: We should implement Magic the Gathering pop-ups on hover
• french347: Make spaces unbreakable when it's obvious that a line-break should not occur
• mse264171: SE new blog: Broken link on 'serverfault.com' and 'superuser.com' under 'TAGS'
• mse299082: Display embedded YouTube videos in markdown preview (on aviation, bicycles, gaming, movies, music, scifi, space and video)

Review fixes

These fixes apply to the post review interface. I've listed them separately here, since they include some of the more notable interface tweaks in SOUP.

• mse172931: Please put answers underneath questions in Close review queue
• mso297489: Add close option to the “Help and Improvement” queue to avoid cluttering flags?
• mso356880: “This post has been edited x time since you began” persists after saving the question

MathJax-related fixes:

These fixes apply only to sites using MathJax for LaTeX math rendering.

• mse209393: Render MathJax in the 10k tools
• math11036: Can we have the suggested questions' titles parsed by default?
• math4130: The scope of \newcommand is the entire page
• mse229363: Exclude TeX.SE question titles from MathJax parsing in Hot Network Questions
• math19650: Post with many lines of display math takes up most of the Questions page

This SOUP version includes a copy of the punycode.js library v1.2.4 by Mathias Bynens, distributed under the MIT license. The additional permissions granted above do not apply to this library.

The Stack Overflow Unofficial Patch (SOUP) is a project to collect various minor client-side bug fixes, work-arounds and usability improvements for Stack Overflow and other Q&A sites on the Stack Exchange Network into a single user script.

Download / Install SOUP

^{View source / List of fixes / Change log / GitHub repo}

^{NOTE: SOUP is compatible with Firefox 57 / Greasemonkey 4. However, due to a known bug, installing SOUP (or any other user scripts) from GitHub may fail. Until the bug is fixed (and until GM4 stabilizes more generally) I recommend using another user script manager (such as Tampermonkey or Violentmonkey) or the stand-alone SOUP extension for Firefox instead.}

^{NOTE 2: Tampermonkey on Chrome suffers from a race condition that can cause some fixes that rely on early loading to fail to apply properly. To avoid this, you should either use the stand-alone SOUP Chrome extension or set Inject Mode to "Instant" in Tampermonkey preferences (in the Experimental section, only visible when Config Mode is set to "Advanced" above). Other user script managers on Chrome may also be subject to similar issues.}

Download / Install SOUP (development branch)

^{View source / List of fixes / Change log / GitHub repo}

The list of issues fixed by the latest version of SOUP is available on GitHub (also for the development branch). You can also browse the change log (development) to see which fixes have been added and removed in recent versions of SOUP.

SOUP includes a copy of the punycode.js library v1.2.4 by Mathias Bynens, distributed under the MIT license. The additional permissions granted above do not apply to this library.